Biak giant rat
Species of rodent
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The Biak Island uromys or Biak giant rat (Uromys boeadii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.[1][2] It is known only from a single specimen collected on the Indonesian island of Biak.[2]
| Biak Island uromys[1] | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Uromys |
| Species: | U. boeadii |
| Binomial name | |
| Uromys boeadii Groves and Flannery, 1994 | |
