Western Water Rat

Western Water Rat

Taxobox
name = Western Water Rat
status = LR/nt | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Hydromys"
species = "H. hussoni"
binomial = "Hydromys hussoni"
binomial_authority = Musser & Piik, 1982
synonyms = The Western Water Rat ("Hydromys hussoni") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/10312/all Hydromys hussoni] . [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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