The Flores cave rat (''Spelaeomys florensis'') lived on
Flores Island,
Indonesia
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Flemming
Flemming is a surname and a male given name referring, like the more common '' Fleming'', to an inhabitant (or descendant thereof) of Flanders, assessed this species to be extinct in 1996, but believed it probably died out before 1500. This specimen is only known from a few subfossil fragments. It is the only member of the genus ''Spelaeomys''.
[D. A. HOOIJER (23 december 1957)]
NEW GIANT PREHISTORIC RATS FROM FLORES LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS.
ZOOLOGISCHE MEDEDELINGEN XXXV , No. 21
References
Old World rats and mice
Extinct rodents
Extinct animals of Indonesia
Extinct mammals of Asia
Holocene extinctions
Mammals described in 1957
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