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Red Tree Rat
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Information
Range Indonesia
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Rodentia
Family Muridae
Genus Pithecheir
Species Pithecheir melanurus
Conservation Status
VUSpecies
Vulnerable

The Red tree rat (Pithecheir melanurus), is a species of monkey-footed rat in the family Muridae. It is found only in Java, Indonesia.

The information about these animals was found from a handful of specimens before World War II.

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