Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat

The long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat, also called the Papuan lowland paramelomys, is a small rodent of the family Muridae whose scientific name is Paramelomys levipes. It is found only in Papua New Guinea, which makes it a national endemic rather than a species shared across the wider New Guinea region. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in the genus Paramelomys within the tribe Hydromyini, the Australasian group of murids that includes the mosaic-tailed rats, and records it as a living species found in the wild. It was first described as Uromys levipes by O. Thomas in 1897, from a specimen collected at Haveri, about 700 metres up on the Sogeri Plateau in Central Province, and the database lists its IUCN Red List status as Least Concern.