| Sulawesi giant rat Temporal range: Late Pliocene – Recent
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Rattini |
| Genus: | Taeromys |
| Species: | T. dominator
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| Taeromys dominator | |
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The Sulawesi giant rat (Taeromys dominator) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.3 The species is endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia, where it inhabits forests at elevations from sea level to the tree line.1 It is frugivorous and semiarboreal.1 While not currently listed as threatened, it is impacted by both habitat destruction and subsistence hunting.1 In 2021, it was transferred from the monotypic genus Paruromys back to Taeromys, where it was previously placed by Henry Jacob Victor Sody in 1941.4
References
References
- Achmadi, A.S.; Fahri, F.; Gazzard, A.; Handika, H.; Inayah, N.; Lanusi, A.A.; Nangoy, M.; Nurdin, M.R.T.J.P.; Rowe, K.C. (2024). "Taeromys dominator". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024 e.T16375A233246548. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T16375A233246548.en. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- Thomas, O. (1921). "On a new genus and species of shrew, and some new Muride from the East-Indian Archipelago". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9. 7 (39): 243–249. doi:10.1080/00222932108632519.
- Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Species Paruromys dominator". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1435. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- Handika, Heru; Achmadi, Anang S.; Esselstyn, Jacob A.; Rowe, Kevin C. (2021). "Molecular and morphological systematics of the Bunomys division (Rodentia: Muridae), an endemic radiation on Sulawesi". Zoologica Scripta. 50 (2): 141–154. doi:10.1111/zsc.12460. ISSN 0300-3256.