Grassland Melomys

Grassland Melomys

Taxobox
name = Grassland Melomys
status = LC
status_system = IUCN3.1
trend = stable
status_ref = IUCN2008|assessors=Aplin, K., Dickman, C., Helgen, K., Winter, J., Ellis, M. & Burbidge, A.|year=2008|id=13116|title=Pseudocheirus occidentalis|downloaded=10 October 2008)]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Melomys"
species = "M. burtoni"
binomial = "Melomys burtoni"
binomial_authority = (Ramsay, 1887)
synonyms =
The Grassland Melomys ("Melomys burtoni") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It it found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

References

*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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