Elegant margareta rat

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Elegant margareta rat
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)^[1]]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Margaretamys
Species:	M. elegans
Binomial name
*Margaretamys elegans* Musser, 1981

The elegant margareta rat (Margaretamys elegans) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.^[2] It is endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

References

Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Oenomys–Pithecheir)

Oenomys
Division

Grammomys	Arid thicket rat (G. aridulus) G. brevirostris Bunting's thicket rat (G. buntingi) Gray-headed thicket rat (G. caniceps) Mozambique thicket rat (G. cometes) Woodland thicket rat (G. dolichurus) Forest thicket rat (G. dryas) Giant thicket rat (G. gigas) Ruwenzori thicket rat (G. ibeanus) Eastern rainforest thicket rat (G. kuru) Macmillan's thicket rat (G. macmillani) Ethiopian thicket rat (G. minnae) Shining thicket rat (G. poensis) Selous thicket rat (G. selousi)
Lamottemys	Mount Oku rat (L. okuensis)
Oenomys (Rufous-nosed rats)	Common rufous-nosed rat (O. hypoxanthus) Ghana rufous-nosed rat (O. ornatus)
Thallomys (Acacia rats)	Loring's rat (T. loringi) Black-tailed tree rat (T. nigricauda) Acacia rat (T. paedulcus) Shortridge's rat (T. shortridgei)
Thamnomys (Thicket rats)	Kemp's thicket rat (T. kempi) Hatt's thicket rat (T. major) Charming thicket rat (T. venustus)

Phloeomys
Division

Batomys (Luzon and Mindanao forest rats)	Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat (B. dentatus) Luzon hairy-tailed rat (B. granti) Hamiguitan hairy-tailed rat (B. hamiguitan) Dinagat hairy-tailed rat (B. russatus) Mindanao hairy-tailed rat (B. salomonseni) Mount Isarog hairy-tailed rat (B. uragon)
Carpomys (Luzon rats)	Short-footed Luzon tree rat (C. melanurus) White-bellied Luzon tree rat (C. phaeurus)
Crateromys (Cloudrunners)	Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat (C. australis) Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat (C. schadenbergi) Panay cloudrunner (C. heaneyi) Ilin Island cloudrunner (C. paulus)
Phloeomys (Slender-tailed cloud rats)	Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat (P. cumingi) Northern Luzon giant cloud rat (P. pallidus)

Pithecheir
Division

Eropeplus	Sulawesi soft-furred rat (E. canus)
Lenomys	Trefoil-toothed giant rat (L. meyeri)
Lenothrix	Gray tree rat (L. canus)
Margaretamys (Margareta's rats)	Beccari's margareta rat (M. beccarii) Christine's margareta rat (M. christinae) Elegant margareta rat (M. elegans) Little margareta rat (M. parvus)
Pithecheir (Monkey-footed rats)	Red tree rat (P. melanurus) Malayan tree rat (P. parvus)
Pithecheirops	Bornean pithecheirops (P. otion)

See also: Aethomys–Chrotomys; Colomys–Golunda; Hadromys–Maxomys; Melasmothrix–Mus; Pogonomys–Pseudomys; Rattus; Stenocephalomys–Xeromys; Otomys; Others

Taxon identifiers
Margaretamys elegans	Wikidata: Q1765173 Wikispecies: Margaretamys elegans CoL: 72TXG EoL: 1179163 GBIF: 2438958 iNaturalist: 45351 IRMNG: 10464804 ITIS: 585315 IUCN: 12796 MDD: 1003553 MSW: 13001462 NCBI: 1392620 Observation.org: 84573 Open Tree of Life: 3610863

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