- Black-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat
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Black-Tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat 
Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Melomys Species: M. rufescens Binomial name Melomys rufescens
(Alston, 1877)Synonyms gracilis (Thomas, 1906)
The Black-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys rufescens) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
References
- Baillie, J. 1996. Melomys gracilis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 July 2007.
- Baillie, J. 1996. Melomys rufescens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 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.
