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Papagomys

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Papagomys is a genus of very large rats in the tribe Rattini of the subfamily Murinae. It contains two species, which are known only from the Indonesian island of Flores:[1]

Both species have records extending to the early Late Pleistocene.[2]

References

  1. ^ Musser and Carleton, 2005; Zijlstra et al., 2008; Aplin and Helgen, 2010
  2. ^ van den Bergh, Gerrit D.; Alloway, Brent V.; Storey, Michael; Setiawan, Ruly; Yurnaldi, Dida; Kurniawan, Iwan; Moore, Mark W.; Jatmiko; Brumm, Adam; Flude, Stephanie; Sutikna, Thomas; Setiyabudi, Erick; Prasetyo, Unggul W.; Puspaningrum, Mika R.; Yoga, Ifan (October 2022). "An integrative geochronological framework for the Pleistocene So'a basin (Flores, Indonesia), and its implications for faunal turnover and hominin arrival". Quaternary Science Reviews. 294: 107721. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107721.
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Papagomys: Brief Summary

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Papagomys is a genus of very large rats in the tribe Rattini of the subfamily Murinae. It contains two species, which are known only from the Indonesian island of Flores:

Flores giant rat Papagomys armandvillei Verhoeven's giant tree rat Papagomys theodorverhoeveni (extinct)

Both species have records extending to the early Late Pleistocene.

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