Melomys rubicola 2🐭

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SpeciesRodentiaMuridae
Mammals

🐭Bramble Cay melomys

Melomys rubicola Thomas, 1924

Melomys rubicola är en däggdjursart som beskrevs av Thomas 1924. Melomys rubicola ingår i släktet Melomys och familjen råttdjur. IUCN kategoriserar arten globalt som akut hotad men den kan mycket väl vara utdöd. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/660th of your weight
Also called
Bramble Cay Mosaic-tailed Rat
Conservation status
EXExtinct

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Key measurements
Body mass
0.09 kg
Body length
0.15 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
5.05 years
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EX

This animal is extinct

Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List, 2025. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.

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Everything we know about the Bramble Cay melomys

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Body mass
0.09 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
0.15 m
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Maximum lifespan
5.05 yearsestimated
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Generation length
2.1 yearsestimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
172 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
38 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Litter size
about 2
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Bramble Cay melomys yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyMuridae
  6. ›genusMelomys
  7. ›speciesMelomys rubicola
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. suborderMyomorpha
  4. familyMuridae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderMyomorpha
  13. familyMuridae
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Melomys rubicola (de), Melomys rubicola (pt), Melomys rubicola (vi), Melomys rubicola (it), Bramble Cay-mozaïekstaartrat (nl), Melomys rubicola (sv) … and 15 more languages
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