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Eastern small-toothed rat

species of mammal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ1762045 ↗
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The eastern small-toothed rat (Macruromys major) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

References

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. 1353. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eastern small-toothed rat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.