Lowland Mammelomys

Lowland MammelomysThis rodent is listed in a regional account of northern New Guinea lowland-forest fauna. Thomas’s original description calls it a large rat with a close, glossy coat and a long, slender skull.What does it look like?Thomas described a large rat with a short, close, glossy coat and a long, slender skull.How does it live?This rodent is listed in a regional account of northern New Guinea lowland-forest fauna. Thomas’s original description calls it a large rat with a close, glossy coat and a long, slender skull.A 2012 regional account includes the species in the northern New Guinea rodent fauna compiled from lowland-forest inventories around Yos Sudarso Bay, the Cyclops foothills, Yapen, and the Mamberamo River basin. This is a regional list combining survey areas.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.