Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat

Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Melomys
Species:	M. burtoni
Binomial name
Melomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887)

The Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat, or Grassland Melomys (Melomys burtoni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

References

1. ^ Aplin, K., Dickman, C., Helgen, K., Winter, J., Ellis, M. & Burbidge, A. (2008). Pseudocheirus occidentalis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 October 2008.)

• Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13001500.