Webb's Tufted-Tailed Rat

Webb's Tufted-Tailed Rat

Taxobox
name = Webb's Tufted-tailed Rat
status = LR/nt | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Nesomyidae
genus = "Eliurus"
species = "E. webbi"
binomial = "Eliurus webbi"
binomial_authority = Ellerman, 1949
synonyms =

Webb's Tufted-tailed Rat ("Eliurus webbi") is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family.It is found only in Madagascar.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/7626/all Eliurus webbi] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.


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