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Biak Island uromys
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Uromys
Species:	U. boeadii
Binomial name
Uromys boeadii Groves and Flannery, 1994

The Biak Island uromys or Biak giant rat (Uromys boeadii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is known only from a single specimen collected on the Indonesian island of Biak.

References

1. ^ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1514. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. ^ Wright, D.; Leary, T. (2016). "Uromys boeadii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136773A519016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136773A519016.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.

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