Biology:Annandale's rat

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Short description: Species of rodent

Annandale's rat
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Sundamys
Species:
S. annandalei
Binomial name
Sundamys annandalei
(Bonhote, 1903)

Annandale's rat (Sundamys annandalei) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Indonesia (Sumatra), Peninsular Malaysia, and Singapore. It was classified as Rattus annandalei until 2017, but mitochondrial and nuclear DNA show that it belongs to the rat genus Sundamys.[2]

References

  1. Aplin, K. (2016). "Rattus annandalei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T19321A22443976. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T19321A22443976.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19321/22443976. 
  2. Camacho-Sanchez, M., Jennifer A. Leonard, Yuli Fitriana, Marie-Ka Tilak, and Pierre-Henri Fabre. 2017. "The generic status of Rattus annandalei (Bonhote, 1903) (Rodentia, Murinae) and its evolutionary implications." Journal of Mammalogy, 98: 1340-1355

External links


Wikidata ☰ Q510382 entry