Yamdena mosaic-tailed rat

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Yamdena mosaic-tailed rat
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Melomys
Species:	M. cooperae
Binomial name
*Melomys cooperae* Kitchener, 1995

The Yamdena mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys cooperae) is a species of rat belonging to the family Muridae. It was first described in 1995 from specimens found on Yamdena Island in Indonesia.^[2] No other examples of this species have been found; as a result very little is known about it. IUCN lists it as Data Deficient.^[1]

Appearance

The species is of medium size with a maximum recorded weight range of 64.5 to 96.5 g and a head and body length of between 118 and 140 mm. The upper parts are cinnamon-brown, with blackish reflections on the nose and forehead and white cheeks. There are blackish rings around the eyes. The ventral parts, interior parts of the limbs and the back of the legs are white. The ears are short and cinnamon in colour. The tail is longer than the head and body (140 – 170 mm), and is lavender-grey on top and pale grey below.^[3]

It is distinguished from other members of the genus Melomys by last upper molar being longer and a “combination of very long tail, long incisive foramen and distinctive white cheeks".^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Aplin, K. & Helgen, K. (2008). "Melomys cooperae". IUCN 2013 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.Version 2013.2. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
^ Don E. Wilson; DeeAnn M. Reeder (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 12. JHU Press. p. 1377. ISBN 9780801882210.
^ ^a ^b D.J. Kitchener & I. Maryanto (1995). "A new species of Melomys (Rodentia, Muridae) from Yamdena Island, Tanimbar group, Eastern Indonesia". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 17: 43–50.

External links

Data related to Melomys cooperae at Wikispecies

Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Stenocephalomys–Xeromys)

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordate
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae

Stenocephalomys
Division

Congomys

Heimyscus

African smoky mouse (H. fumosus)

Hylomyscus
(African wood mice)

H. aeta group: Beaded wood mouse (H. aeta) Mount Oku hylomyscus (H. grandis)
H. alleni group: Allen's wood mouse (H. alleni) Angolan wood mouse (H. carillus) Hylomyscus pamfi Stella wood mouse (H. stella) Walter Verheyeni's mouse (H. walterverheyeni)
H. anselli group: Ansell's wood mouse (H. anselli) Arc Mountain wood mouse (H. arcimontensis) Kerbis Peterhans's wood mouse (H. kerbispeterhansi)
H. baeri group: Baer's wood mouse (H. baeri)
H. denniae group: Montane wood mouse (H. denniae) H. endorobae H. vulcanorum
H. parvus group: Little wood mouse (H. parvus)

Mastomys
(Multimammate rats)

Montemys

Delectable soft-furred mouse (M. delectorum)

Myomyscus
(Multimammate rats)

Verreaux's mouse (M. verreauxii)

Ochromyscus

Praomys
(African
soft-furred rats)

Serengetimys

Dwarf multimammate mouse (S. pernanus)

Stenocephalemys
(Ethiopian
narrow-headed rats)

Uromys Division

Melomys (Banana rats)	Dusky mosaic-tailed rat (M. aerosus) Rossel Island melomys (M. arcium) Bannister's rat (M. bannisteri) Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat (M. bougainville) Grassland mosaic-tailed rat (M. burtoni) Cape York melomys (M. capensis) Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat (M. caurinus) Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat(M. cervinipes) Yamdena mosaic-tailed rat (M. cooperae) Dollman's melomys (M. dollmani) Manusela mosaic-tailed rat (M. fraterculus) Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat (M. frigicola) Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat (M. fulgens) Riama mosaic-tailed rat (M. howi) White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (M. leucogaster) Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat (M. lutillus) Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat (M. matambuai) Obi mosaic-tailed rat (M. obiensis) Pavel's Seram mosaic-tailed rat (M. paveli) Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat (M. rufescens) Buka Island mosaic-tailed rat (M. spechti) Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat (M. talaudium)
Paramelomys	Gressitt's mosaic-tailed rat (P. gressitti) Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat (P. levipes) Lorentz's mosaic-tailed rat (P. lorentzii) Thomas's mosaic-tailed rat (P. mollis) Moncton's mosaic-tailed rat (P. moncktoni) Long-nosed paramelomys (P. naso) Lowland mosaic-tailed rat (P. platyops) Mountain mosaic-tailed rat (P. rubex) Stein's paramelomys (P. steini)
Protochromys	Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (P. fellowsi)
Solomys (Naked-tailed rats)	Poncelet's giant rat (S. ponceleti) Florida naked-tailed rat (S. salamonis) Bougainville naked-tailed rat (S. salebrosus) Isabel naked-tailed rat (S. sapientis)
Uromys (Giant naked-tailed rats)	Giant naked-tailed rat (U. anak) Biak giant rat (U. boeadii) Giant white-tailed rat (U. caudimaculatus) Emma's giant rat (U. emmae) Masked white-tailed rat (U. hadrourus) Emperor rat (U. imperator) Bismarck giant rat (U. neobritanicus) Guadalcanal rat (U. porculus) King rat (U. rex) Great Key Island giant rat (U. siebersi) Vangunu giant rat (U. vika)

Xeromys Division

Leptomys	L. arfakensis Long-footed water rat (L. elegans) Ernst Mayr's water rat (L. ernstmayri) L. paulus Fly River water rat (L. signatus)
Pseudohydromys (New Guinea false water rats)	Bishop's moss mouse (P. berniceae) Huon small-toothed moss mouse (P. carlae) Laurie's moss mouse (P. eleanorae) One-toothed shrew mouse (P. ellermani) Mottled-tailed shrew mouse (P. fuscus) German's one-toothed moss mouse (P. germani) Eastern shrew mouse (P. murinus) Musser's shrew mouse (P. musseri) Western shrew mouse (P. occidentalis) Woolley's moss mouse (P. patriciae) Southern small-toothed moss mouse (P. pumehanae) White-bellied moss mouse (P. sandrae)
Xeromys	False water rat (X. myoides)

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

Taxon identifiers
Melomys cooperae	Wikidata: Q2777851 Wikispecies: Melomys cooperae CoL: 72Y9S GBIF: 4264960 iNaturalist: 74562 IRMNG: 10538007 ITIS: 970844 IUCN: 136467 MDD: 1003212 MSW: 13001504 NCBI: 2303642 Observation.org: 200788 Open Tree of Life: 3608798

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