The eastern rat, Rattus mordax, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae that is found only in Papua New Guinea. It was first described by O. Thomas in 1904 as Mus mordax, in a paper on mammals from British New Guinea presented to the National Museum by C. A. W. Monckton, and its type locality is the Kumusi River in Papua New Guinea. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in the subfamily Murinae, tribe Rattini and genus Rattus, in the Australasian biogeographic realm, lists it under the common name Eastern New Guinea rat, and records its IUCN Red List status as Least Concern. It is also listed in the 2005 edition of Mammal Species of the World.
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It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
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It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
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The eastern rat (Rattus mordax) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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The eastern rat (Rattus mordax) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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