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Okinawa Island Spiny Rat

Tokudaia muenninki

Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Tokudaia
IUCN status
CR
Distribution
Japan
Realm
Palearctic

Other names: Muennink's Spiny Rat|Okinawa Spiny Rat

About this species

Okinawa Island Spiny Rat (Tokudaia muenninki) is a spiny rat recorded in the Japan mammal catalogue. This concise entry identifies the accepted catalogue taxon without adding ecology that has not yet been verified from a species-level source (Mammal Diversity Database range record). Japan's national Red List records it as Critically endangered (Japan MOE Red List 2020).

Description: Wildlife of Japan guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com)

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