Christine's margareta rat

Christine's margareta rat (Margaretamys christinae) is a rodent of the family Muridae, in the Old World rats and mice subfamily Murinae, found only in Indonesia on the island of Sulawesi. It was discovered in 2011 by an expedition led by Alessio Mortelliti of the Sapienza University of Rome and described in 2012, and it is named for Christina Thwaites, another member of the expedition. It is a small rat with a head and body length of about 110 millimetres and a longer tail of about 175 millimetres, with soft reddish brown upper parts, greyish buff underparts and a long bicoloured tail that ends in a tuft. It is known from a single specimen taken in rainforest at about 1,537 metres in the Mekongga mountain range in the southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, and its conservation status is provisionally assessed as Endangered.