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Uromys
''Uromys'' is a genus of rodents found in Melanesia and Australia. They are known as the giant naked-tailed rats. There are eleven species in the genus, with the most recent described in 2017. Species *Giant naked-tailed rat, ''Uromys anak'' Thomas, 1907 * Biak giant rat, ''Uromys boeadii'' Groves & Flannery, 1994 * Giant white-tailed rat, ''Uromys caudimaculatus'' Krefft, 1867 * Emma's giant rat, ''Uromys emmae'' Groves & Flannery, 1994 *Masked white-tailed rat, ''Uromys hadrourus'' Winter, 1983 *Emperor rat, ''Uromys imperator'' Thomas, 1888 * Bismarck giant rat, ''Uromys neobritannicus'' Tate & Archbold, 1935 *Guadalcanal rat, ''Uromys porculus'' Thomas, 1904 * King rat, ''Uromys rex'' Thomas, 1888 * Great Key Island giant rat, ''Uromys siebersi'' Thomas, 1923 *Vangunu giant rat The Vangunu giant rat (''Uromys vika''), locally known as the vika, is a giant arboreal species of rodent in the family Muridae. The rat was discovered in the island of Vangunu in the Solomon Islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uromys
''Uromys'' is a genus of rodents found in Melanesia and Australia. They are known as the giant naked-tailed rats. There are eleven species in the genus, with the most recent described in 2017. Species *Giant naked-tailed rat, ''Uromys anak'' Thomas, 1907 * Biak giant rat, ''Uromys boeadii'' Groves & Flannery, 1994 * Giant white-tailed rat, ''Uromys caudimaculatus'' Krefft, 1867 * Emma's giant rat, ''Uromys emmae'' Groves & Flannery, 1994 *Masked white-tailed rat, ''Uromys hadrourus'' Winter, 1983 *Emperor rat, ''Uromys imperator'' Thomas, 1888 * Bismarck giant rat, ''Uromys neobritannicus'' Tate & Archbold, 1935 *Guadalcanal rat, ''Uromys porculus'' Thomas, 1904 * King rat, ''Uromys rex'' Thomas, 1888 * Great Key Island giant rat, ''Uromys siebersi'' Thomas, 1923 *Vangunu giant rat The Vangunu giant rat (''Uromys vika''), locally known as the vika, is a giant arboreal species of rodent in the family Muridae. The rat was discovered in the island of Vangunu in the Solomon Islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guadalcanal Rat
The Guadalcanal rat (''Uromys porculus'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It was found only in the Solomon Islands. Since this species was collected between 1886 and 1888 it has not been seen again. It is possibly extinct. Description The only known skull of the Guadalcanal rat is clearly elongate and narrow, but has the molars so worn that few details of the crown remain. The details in the skull are described as similar to other members of the genus Uromys, specifically ''Uromys rex'' and '' Uromus imperator.'' The species also had a very short tail, indicating it was possibly terrestrial. History The only known specimen of Guadacanal rat was described in 1904 by Oldfield Thomas, although it was most likely collected at or around the same time as similar species ''Uromys rex'' and '' Uromus imperator'' in the late 1880s. The species was registered in 1889 and was collected by Charles Morris Woodford at Aola village in the Solomon Islands. The species has no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Rat (animal)
The king rat (''Uromys rex'') is a large species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.Gippoliti, S. 2002.Uromys rex . Retrieved 9 July 2007. Like the two other species of rodent in Guadalcanal, it is placed in the genus U''romys''. It lives in trees and is larger than '''' but smaller than '' Uromys imperator
The emperor rat (''Uromys imperator'') is a large species of rodent in the family Muridae. I ...
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Vangunu Giant Rat
The Vangunu giant rat (''Uromys vika''), locally known as the vika, is a giant arboreal species of rodent in the family Muridae. The rat was discovered in the island of Vangunu in the Solomon Islands in 2015, after years of searching based on local stories, and described in 2017. It was identified as a new species on the basis of its skull, skeleton and a detailed DNA analysis. The single individual initially collected from a felled tree ('' Dillenia salomonensis'') measured 46 cm long, weighed between 0.5 and 1.0 kg and had orange-brown fur. Its diet is believed to include thick-shelled nuts like ngali nuts and coconuts, and probably fruit In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particu ...s. The species is likely to be designated critically endangered, due to the smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giant White-tailed Rat
The giant white-tailed rat (''Uromys caudimaculatus'') is an Australian rodent native to tropical rainforest of north Queensland, with subspecies occurring in New Guinea and the Aru Islands. It is one of the largest rodents in Australia, reaching up to 1 kg in weight.Moore, L. A. (1995) "Giant white-tailed rat", ''Uromys caudimaculatus''. In: ''Mammals of Australia''. (Ed, Strahan, R.) pp. 638–640. Reed Books, Chatswood, NSW. It is grey-brown above, cream to white below, and has a long, naked tail of which the distal section is white (Moore 1995). Breeding commences in September or October, peaking in December and January at the height of the wet season. After a gestation of 36 days, a litter of two to three (rarely four) young are born, and remain with the mother for approximately three months (Moore 1995). Common names The common name of this species has long been white-tailed rat or giant white-tailed rat. During the 1990s there was a push for such descriptive English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uromys Caudimaculatus
The giant white-tailed rat (''Uromys caudimaculatus'') is an Australian rodent native to tropical rainforest of north Queensland, with subspecies occurring in New Guinea and the Aru Islands. It is one of the largest rodents in Australia, reaching up to 1 kg in weight.Moore, L. A. (1995) "Giant white-tailed rat", ''Uromys caudimaculatus''. In: ''Mammals of Australia''. (Ed, Strahan, R.) pp. 638–640. Reed Books, Chatswood, NSW. It is grey-brown above, cream to white below, and has a long, naked tail of which the distal section is white (Moore 1995). Breeding commences in September or October, peaking in December and January at the height of the wet season. After a gestation of 36 days, a litter of two to three (rarely four) young are born, and remain with the mother for approximately three months (Moore 1995). Common names The common name of this species has long been white-tailed rat or giant white-tailed rat. During the 1990s there was a push for such descriptive English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masked White-tailed Rat
The masked white-tailed rat (''Uromys hadrourus'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia, in north-east Queensland. Descriptive English common names for this species include Masked White-tailed Rat and Thornton Peak Uromys. During the 1990s there was a push for such names to be replaced with indigenous Australian names, and accordingly, in 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency Director of National Parks is a government-owned corporation of the Australian government responsible for the management of a portfolio of terrestrial and marine protected areas proclaimed under the ''Environment Protection and Biodiversity Con ... published recommendations for the common names of rodents. They failed to identify any indigenous Australian names for ''U. hadrourus'', so recommended the adoption of the name Kuku, the Kuku-Yalanki name for any rat. However this recommendation was not prescriptive, and it remains to be seen to what exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emperor Rat
The emperor rat (''Uromys imperator'') is a large species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. It is classified as critically endangered by the IUCN The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu ... but may already be extinct. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q135155 Uromys Mammals described in 1888 Rodent extinctions since 1500 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma's Giant Rat
Emma's uromys or Emma's giant rat (''Uromys emmae'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is only known from Owi Island, a small island of the size of about one square kilometer some 5km South of Biak Island, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine .... References Uromys Mammals of Western New Guinea Mammals described in 1994 Endemic fauna of the Biak–Numfoor rain forests Taxa named by Colin Groves Taxa named by Tim Flannery Rodents of New Guinea {{Murinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Key Island Giant Rat
The Great Key Island giant rat, or Great Key Island uromys (''Uromys siebersi'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is known only from Great Key Island, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine .... The species name is after the ornithologist H. C. Siebers. References Uromys Mammals described in 1923 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas {{murinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giant Naked-tailed Rat
The giant naked-tailed rat (''Uromys anak'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It lives in tropical forests, wetlands, and in degraded forests. Names It is known as abben in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea.Pawley, Andrew and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. ''A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes''. Canberra. Pacific Linguistics. Description The rodents reach a body length of up to 20–34 cm, with another added 23–38 cm for its tail. It weighs between 350 and 1020 grams. Its fur is typically short and rough, varying in colour from grey to various shades of brown and black, with its underside being white or grey. Its tail is longer than its body and is uniformly black, with the basal part densely covered with reddish hairs. Ecology The species has been known to eat karuka The karuka (''Pandanus julianettii'', also called karuka nut and ''Pandanus'' nut) is a species of tree in the famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biak Giant Rat
The Biak Island uromys or Biak giant rat (''Uromys boeadii'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is known only from a single specimen collected on the Indonesian island of Biak Biak is an island located in Cenderawasih Bay near the northern coast of Papua, an Indonesian province, and is just northwest of New Guinea. Biak is the largest island in its small archipelago, and has many atolls, reefs, and corals. The large .... References Uromys Mammals of Western New Guinea Mammals described in 1994 Taxa named by Colin Groves Taxa named by Tim Flannery Rodents of New Guinea {{Murinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |