Buhler's Coryphomys

Buhler's Coryphomys
Buhler's Coryphomys[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Coryphomys
Species: C. buehleri
Binomial name
Coryphomys buehleri
Schaub, 1937

Buhler's Coryphomys (Coryphomys buehleri) is an extinct species of giant rat. It is known only from sub-fossil fragments that were found on Timor Island, Indonesia.[2] It is related to the murines of New Guinea.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1309. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13001300. 
  2. ^ a b Chiozza, F. (2008). Coryphomys buehleri. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 January 2009.


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