Biology:New Ireland forest rat
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Short description: Species of rodent
| New Ireland forest rat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Rattus |
| Species: | R. sanila
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| Binomial name | |
| Rattus sanila Flannery & White, 1991
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The New Ireland forest rat (Rattus sanila) is a large rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to New Ireland, in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea.
Description
Ratus sanila is known only by the discovery of some 7 subfossil fragments of jaw dated to over 3000 years old. The molars of this particular species are broad and have a very complex structure of the cusp. The diastema is also longer than in other species of the genus Rattus suggesting a separate species which may be a relict of an archaic or ancestral dispersal of Rattus stock to New Guinea and Australia . This species probably still survives in some primary forest.[1]
References
- ↑ Wilson, edited by Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (2005). Mammal species of the world : a taxonomic and geographic reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4. https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13001779.
External links
- http://thewebsiteofeverything.com/animals/mammals/Rodentia/Muridae/Rattus/Rattus-sanila.html
- Bucknell
- http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=585548
Wikidata ☰ Q1761870 entry
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