Fat-nosed spiny rat

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Fat-nosed spiny rat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Maxomys
Species:
M. inflatus
Binomial name
Maxomys inflatus
(Robinson & Kloss, 1916)

The fat-nosed spiny rat (Maxomys inflatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Indonesia.

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