Western New Guinea mountain rat

The western New Guinea mountain rat (Rattus arrogans) is a rodent of the family Muridae that lives in the mountains of New Guinea. According to Wikipedia it is widespread in the mountains of central and western New Guinea. The accepted name in the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy is Rattus arrogans, with the authority given as Thomas, 1922, from the Annals and Magazine of Natural History; the brackets around the authority show that it was first described in a different genus and later moved to Rattus. It belongs to the order Rodentia and the class Mammalia, and GBIF records its English common name as the Western New Guinea mountain rat. The IUCN Red List category recorded by GBIF for this species is Least Concern, which means it has not been judged to be at significant risk of extinction.