Pavel's Seram mosaic-tailed rat

Pavel's Seram mosaic-tailed rat, Melomys paveli, is a rodent in the family Muridae found only on the south coast of the island of Seram in Indonesia. It was once treated as a subspecies of the black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat, Melomys rufescens, until Musser and Carleton raised it to full species level in 2005. According to its source article the IUCN has too little information to assess its conservation status, so it is listed as data deficient. The article gives no description of its appearance, diet or habitat, and none is asserted here.