Papagomys
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Papagomys
Sody, 1941
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Papagomys is a genus of very large rats in the tribe Rattini of the subfamily Murinae. It contains two species, which are known only from the Indonesian island of Flores:[1]
- Flores Giant Rat Papagomys armandvillei
- Verhoeven's Giant Tree Rat Papagomys theodorverhoeveni (extinct)
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- Aplin, K.P. and Helgen, K.M. 2010. Quaternary murid rodents of Timor. Part I: New material of Coryphomys buehleri Schaub, 1937, and description of a second species of the genus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 341:1–80.
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- Zijlstra, J.S., Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den and Due, R.A. 2008. Verhoeven's giant rat of Flores (Papagomys theodorverhoeveni, Muridae) extinct after all? Contributions to Zoology 77(1):25–31.
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- ↑ Musser and Carleton, 2005; Zijlstra et al., 2008; Aplin and Helgen, 2010
