Lesser rice-field rat | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Rattus |
Species: | R. losea |
Binomial name | |
Rattus losea (R. Swinhoe, 1871) | |
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