Bannister's rat

Species of rodent

Bannister's rat
Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Melomys
Species:
M. bannisteri
Binomial name
Melomys bannisteri
Kitchener & Maryanto, 1993

Bannister's rat, or great Key Island mosaic-tailed rat, or great Key Island melomys[2] or great Kai Island melomys[1] (Melomys bannisteri) is a species of rodent of the genus Melomys. It is endemic to the Kai Besar, one of the islands which are part of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Wright, D. (2016). "Melomys bannisteri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136604A22421193. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136604A22421193.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Stenocephalomys–Xeromys)
Stenocephalomys
Division
Congomys
  • Lukolela swamp rat (C. lukolelae)
  • Verschuren's swamp rat (C. verschureni)
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. parvus group: Little wood mouse (H. parvus)
Mastomys
(Multimammate rats)
  • Angolan multimammate mouse (M. angolensis)
  • Awash multimammate mouse (M. awashensis)
  • Southern multimammate mouse (M. coucha)
  • Guinea multimammate mouse (M. erythroleucus)
  • Hubert's multimammate mouse (M. huberti)
  • Verheyen's multimammate mouse (M. kollmannspergeri)
  • Natal multimammate mouse (M. natalensis)
  • Shortridge's multimammate mouse (M. shortridgei)
Montemys
  • Delectable soft-furred mouse (M. delectorum)
Myomyscus
(Multimammate rats)
  • Verreaux's mouse (M. verreauxii)
Ochromyscus
  • Brockman's rock mouse (O. brockmani)
  • Yemeni mouse (O. yemeni)
Praomys
(African
soft-furred rats)
  • P. coetzeei
  • Dalton's mouse (P. daltoni)
  • De Graaff's soft-furred mouse (P. degraaffi)
  • Deroo's mouse (P. derooi)
  • Hartwig's soft-furred mouse (P. hartwigi)
  • Jackson's soft-furred mouse (P. jacksoni)
  • Least soft-furred mouse (P. minor)
  • Misonne's soft-furred mouse (P. misonnei)
  • Cameroon soft-furred mouse (P. morio)
  • Muton's soft-furred mouse (P. mutoni)
  • Gotel Mountain soft-furred mouse (P. obscurus)
  • Petter's soft-furred mouse (P. petteri)
  • Forest soft-furred mouse (P. rostratus)
  • Tullberg's soft-furred mouse (P. tullbergi)
Serengetimys
  • Dwarf multimammate mouse (S. pernanus)
Stenocephalemys
(Ethiopian
narrow-headed rats)
  • Ethiopian white-footed mouse (S. albipes)
  • Ethiopian narrow-headed Rat (S. albocaudata)
  • Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat (S. griseicauda)
  • Rupp's mouse (S. ruppi)
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 bannisteri


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