White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Melomys
Species:	M. leucogaster
Binomial name
Melomys leucogaster (Jentink, 1908)

The white-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys leucogaster) 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. 1378. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.

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