Emma's giant rat

Uromys emmae is a rodent of the genus mosaic -tailed giant rat ( Uromys ), which is found on Owi, a 12 km ² island near Biak in the northwest of New Guinea.

The only specimen ever caught was an adult female from July 1946. The species is named after Emma Flannery, the daughter of the biologist Tim Flannery ( Flannery named, for example, the Nasenbeutlerart Echymipera davidi after his son David). U. emmae is closely related to the white-tailed giant rat ( Uromys caudimaculatus ) of Australia and New Guinea and with U. hadrourus from South Australia. Presumably she also lives on Biak itself and Supiori. 1992 Flannery heard by local residents stories about a rat that could possibly have been U. emmae. The species seems to look like a small ordinary white-tailed giant rat, only with smaller and broader feet. The small wide feet and the short snout indicate that it is well adapted to living in trees. The head-body length is 232 mm, tail length 258 mm, the Hinterfußlänge 50.5 millimeters and 20.5 millimeters length of the ears.

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