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Fraternal Hill Rat

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Bunomys
Species:	B. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Near Threatened ( NT) is a Conservation status assigned to species or lower taxa which may be considered threatened with extinction in the near future although The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Mammals ( class Mammalia) are a class of Vertebrate Animals characterized by the presence of Sweat glands, including sweat glands Rodentia is an order of Mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously-growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must Muridae is the largest family of Mammals It contains over 600 species found naturally throughout Eurasia Africa and Australia Bunomys is a genus of Rodent from Sulawesi and Butung Island. fratrorum

Binomial name

Bunomys fratrorum
(Thomas, 1896)

The Fraternal Hill Rat (Bunomys fratrorum) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. (Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas FRS ( February 21, 1858 &ndash June 16, 1929) was a British Zoologist. Rodentia is an order of Mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously-growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must Muridae is the largest family of Mammals It contains over 600 species found naturally throughout Eurasia Africa and Australia It is found only in Indonesia. The Republic of Indonesia ( (Republik Indonesia is a Country in Southeast Asia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. A habitat (which is Latin for "it inhabits" is an Ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular Species. A forest is an area with a high density of Trees There are many definitions of a forest based on various criteria It is threatened by habitat loss. Habitat destruction is the process in which natural Habitat is rendered functionally unable to support the species originally present

References

Baillie, J. 1996. Bunomys fratrorum. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

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