Prehensile-tailed rat
Appearance
Prehensile-tailed rat | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Pogonomys |
Species: | P. mollipilosus
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Binomial name | |
Pogonomys mollipilosus |
The prehensile-tailed rat (Pogonomys mollipilosus) is a species of rodent that can be found in New Guinea and Australia; it occurs in the tropical rainforest of Queensland.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Calaby, J. H., and A. K. Lee. "The rare and endangered rodents of the Australasian region." Rodents: A World Survey of Species of Conservation Concern’.(Ed. WZ Lidicker, Jr.) pp (1989): 53–57.