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Ryukyu Spiny Rat

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Tokudaia
Species:	T. 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 An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming Extinct because it is either few in numbers or threatened by changing environmental or predation 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 Tokudaia is a genus of murine Rodent native to Japan. Known as Ryūkyū spiny rats or spinous country-rats, population osimensis

Binomial name

Tokudaia osimensis
(Y. Abe, 1934)

The Ryukyu Spiny Rat (Tokudaia osimensis) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. 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 Japan. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Its natural habitat is temperate 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

References

Ishii, N. 2000. Tokudaia osimensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. "Superfamily Muroidea", in D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds) Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference pp. 894-1531, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

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