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Tawitawi forest rat

species of mammal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2023
Entity authorityQ310587 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Tawitawi forest rat or Tawitawi Island rat (Rattus tawitawiensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

It is found only in Tawi-Tawi, Philippines.

References

Baillie, J. 1996. Rattus tawitawiensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.

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.).

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The public source identifies “Tawitawi forest rat” as species of mammal. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tawitawi, forest and species.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2006, 2007, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tawitawi, forest and species providing the first useful test.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q310587. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2006, 2007 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tawitawi forest 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.