Sulawesi giant rat
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| Sulawesi giant rat Temporal range: Late Pliocene – Recent
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Rattini |
| Genus: | Taeromys |
| Species: | T. dominator
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| Taeromys dominator | |
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The Sulawesi giant rat (Taeromys dominator) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.[3] The species is endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia, where it inhabits forests at elevations from sea level to the tree line.[1] It is frugivorous and semiarboreal.[1] While not currently listed as threatened, it is impacted by both habitat destruction and subsistence hunting.[1] In 2021, it was transferred from the monotypic genus Paruromys back to Taeromys, where it was previously placed by Henry Jacob Victor Sody in 1941.[4]
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