Rothschild's woolly rat

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Rothschild's woolly rat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Mallomys
Species:
M. rothschildi
Binomial name
Mallomys rothschildi
Thomas, 1898 [2]

Rothschild's woolly rat (Mallomys rothschildi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found on the island of New Guinea: both in the West Papua region of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. [1]

The species has been known to eat karuka nuts (Pandanus julianettii), [3] and growers will put platforms or other obstacles on the trunks of the trees to keep the pests out. [4] [3]

Names

It is known as mosak, aloñ, kabkal, or maklek in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Aplin, K. (2016). "Mallomys rothschildi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T12724A22454854. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T12724A22454854.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1356. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
  3. 1 2 Stilltoe, Paul (1983). Roots of the Earth: Crops in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Manchester, UK: Manchester university Press. ISBN   978-0-7190-0874-0. LCCN   82-62247. OCLC   9556314.
  4. ↑ French, Bruce R. (1982). Growing food in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea (PDF). AFTSEMU (Agricultural Field Trials, Surveys, Evaluation and Monitoring Unit) of the World Bank funded project in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. pp. 64–71. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  5. ↑ Pawley, Andrew and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes. Canberra. Pacific Linguistics.


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