Muennink's Spiny Rat

Muennink's Spiny Rat
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Tokudaia
Species:	T. muenninki
Binomial name
Tokudaia muenninki (Johnson, 1946)

Muennink's Spiny Rat (Tokudaia muenninki) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Okinawa Island, Japan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

In March 2008, the first wild specimen in over 30 years was caught in the northern part of Okinawa island.^[1]

References

1. ^ 幻のネズミ、30年ぶり捕獲 沖縄北部の絶滅危惧種

Further reading

• Ishii, N. 2000. Tokudaia muenninki. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
• 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. 

External links

Data related to Tokudaia muenninki at Wikispecies