Verhoeven's Giant Tree Rat

Verhoeven's Giant Tree Rat

Taxobox
name = "Papagomys theodorverhoeveni"


status = EX
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Eutheria
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Murinae
genus = "Papagomys"
species = "P. theodorverhoeveni"
binomial = "Papagomys theodorverhoeveni"
binomial_authority = Musser, 1981

Verhoeven's Giant Tree Rat ("Papagomys theodorverhoeveni") lived in Indonesia. It was 1996 when it was assessed to be extinct. However, experts believed that it died out before 1500 AD. The species is known only from several subfossil fragments found on Flores Island, Indonesia.

External links

* [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/15976/all IUCN Red List]


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