Sulawesi giant rat

Sulawesi giant rat Temporal range: Late Pliocene – Recent
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Tribe:	Rattini
Genus:	Taeromys
Species:	T. dominator
Binomial name
Taeromys dominator (Thomas, 1921) [2]
Synonyms
frosti (Ellerman, 1949) ursinus (Sody, 1941)

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]

References

1. Musser, G. & Ruedas, L. (2008). "Paruromys dominator". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2008. Retrieved 26 June 2011.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help)
2. Thomas, O. (1921). "On a new genus and species of shrew, and some new Muride from the East-Indian Archipelago". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9. 7 (39): 243–249. doi:10.1080/00222932108632519.
3. Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Species Paruromys dominator". 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. 1435. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
4. Handika, Heru; Achmadi, Anang S.; Esselstyn, Jacob A.; Rowe, Kevin C. (2021). "Molecular and morphological systematics of the Bunomys division (Rodentia: Muridae), an endemic radiation on Sulawesi" . Zoologica Scripta. 50 (2): 141–154. doi:10.1111/zsc.12460. ISSN   0300-3256.