Squirrel-toothed rat

Squirrel-toothed rat
Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Genus: Anisomys
Thomas, 1904
Species: A. imitator
Binomial name
Anisomys imitator
Thomas, 1904

The squirrel-toothed rat, New Guinea giant rat, powerful-toothed rat, uneven-toothed rat, or narrow-toothed giant rat (Anisomys imitator),[2] is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Anisomys. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

References

  1. Leary, T., Seri, L., Flannery, T., Wright, D., Hamilton, S., Helgen, K., Singadan, R., Allison, A., James, R., Bonaccorso, F. & Aplin, K. (2008). Anisomys imitator. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  2. Wrobel, Murray (2006). Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals: In Latin, English, German, French and Italian. Elsevier. ISBN 0-444-51877-0.
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