Sundamys

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Sundamys
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Rattini
Genus: Sundamys
Musser & Newcomb, 1983
Type species
Mus muelleri
Species

Sundamys annandalei
Sundamys infraluteus
Sundamys maxi
Sundamys muelleri

Sundamys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae, found mostly in Indonesia and Malaysia. [1] [2] It contains the following species:

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References

  1. Camacho-Sanchez, M., Jennifer A. Leonard, Yuli Fitriana, Marie-Ka Tilak, and Pierre-Henri Fabre. 2017. "The generic status of Rattus annandalei (Bonhote, 1903) (Rodentia, Murinae) and its evolutionary implications." Journal of Mammalogy, 98: 1340-1355
  2. Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Genus Sundamys". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1503–1504. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.