''Papagomys'' is a genus of very large rats in the tribe

Rattini Rattini is a very large, diverse tribe of muroid rodents in the subfamily Murinae. They are found throughout Asia and Australasia, with a few species ranging into Europe and northern Africa. The most well-known members of this group are the true ...

of the subfamily

Murinae The Old World rats and mice, part of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, comprise at least 519 species. Members of this subfamily are called murines. In terms of species richness, this subfamily is larger than all mammal families excep ...

. It contains two species, which are known only from the Indonesian island of

Flores Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Including the Komodo Islands off its west coast (but excluding the Solor Archipelago to the east of Flores), the land area is 15,530.58 km2, and t ...

:Musser and Carleton, 2005; Zijlstra et al., 2008; Aplin and Helgen, 2010 *

Flores giant rat The Flores giant rat (''Papagomys armandvillei'') is a rodent of the family Muridae that occurs on the island of Flores in Indonesia. It has been recorded in Rutong Protection Forest. The species is found in primary, secondary and disturbed fores ...

''Papagomys armandvillei'' *

Verhoeven's giant tree rat Verhoeven's giant tree rat (''Papagomys theodorverhoeveni'') is an extinct rat of subfamily Murinae that lived on Flores in Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the ...

''Papagomys theodorverhoeveni'' (extinct)

References

Literature cited

*Aplin, K.P. and Helgen, K.M. 2010. Quaternary murid rodents of Timor. Part I: New material of ''Coryphomys buehleri'' Schaub, 1937, and description of a second species of the genus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 341:1–80. * *Zijlstra, J.S., Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den and Due, R.A. 2008
Verhoeven's giant rat of Flores (''Papagomys theodorverhoeveni'', Muridae) extinct after all?
Contributions to Zoology 77(1):25–31. Rodent genera Mammal genera with one living species {{Murinae-stub