Pictures and facts about the Banana rats and mosaic-tailed rat

grassland mosaic-tailed rat	fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat
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Banana rats and mosaic-tailed rat

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

Facts about the genus Melomys, the banana rats and mosaic-tailed rat

He closed up with the observation that the banana rats are getting smarter or he is getting slower, which caused me to speculate upon what Jack does with the slow, dumb rats.

Fawn-footed Melomys is an excellent and swift climber, but cannot climb smooth-barked trees. (Full text)

Hutias, locally known as banana rats, are a common site in GTMO. (Full text)

Door Menzies (1996), die het geslacht Melomys in vieren splitste, werd hij niet onderzocht en de plaatsing van deze soort in Melomys is nog ietwat onzeker, hoewel hij waarschijnlijk wel in Melomys kan blijven (hij schijnt tot de rufescens-leucogaster-groep te behoren). (Full text)

Door Menzies (1996), die het geslacht Melomys in vieren splitste, werd hij niet onderzocht en de plaatsing van deze soort in Melomys is nog onzeker. (Full text)

Melomys is commonly used for example. (Full text)

webfooted water rat the fawn-footed melomys, is an excellent climber and is usually found in forest (Full text)

A tree-climbing rodent, the fawn-footed melomys, is also found there. (Full text)

) Description: The Bramble Cay melomys is one of the mosaic-tailed rats (distinguished by the mosaic pattern of scales on its tail rather than the concentric rows of scales running along the length of the tail found in most other types of rats and mice). (Full text)

As a result, Melomys is redefined to include only four species, rufescens, leucogaster, lutillus and frigicola, in New Guinea. (Full text)