Pictures and facts about the New Guinea woolly rats and woolly rats

New Guinea woolly rats and woolly rats

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Murinae
Genus : Mallomys

Facts about the genus Mallomys, the New Guinea woolly rats and woolly rats

Habitat and Ecology Some reports say that Mallomys is primarily arboreal, but sometimes found at ground level, while others regard it as being mostly terrestrial (Nowak 1999). (Full text)