False Water Rat

Taxobox
name = False Water Rat
fossil_range = Recent
status = VU
status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Murinae
genus = "Xeromys"
genus_authority = Thomas, 1889
species = "X. myoides"
binomial = "Xeromys myoides"
binomial_authority = Thomas, 1889
synonyms = The False Water Rat or Water Mouse, "Xeromys myoides", is a species of rodent in the Muridae family, found only in Australia. It is the only species in the genus "Xeromys".

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/23141/all Xeromys myoides] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 20 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.