King rat (animal)

For other uses, see King Rat (disambiguation) and Rat King (disambiguation).

King rat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Uromys
Species:
U. rex
Binomial name
Uromys rex
(Thomas, 1888)

The king rat (Uromys rex), or rat king, is a large species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.[1][2] Like the two other species of rodent in Guadalcanal, it is placed in the genus Uromys.[3] It lives in trees and is larger than Uromys porculus but smaller than Uromys imperator.[2]

  1. ^ Gippoliti, S. 2002. Uromys rex 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 27 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 9 July 2007.
  2. ^ a b Groves, C.P.; Flannery, T.F. (1994). "A revision of the genus Uromys Peters, 1867 (Muridae:Mammalia)" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 46: 145–169. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2010.
  3. ^ 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. 1516. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.