New Guinea Waterside Rat
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The New Guinea Waterside Rat, Parahydromys asper, is the only member of the genus Parahydromys. It is considered part of the New Guinea
Old Endemics, meaning its ancestors were part of the first wave of murine rodents to colonize the island.
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
Old Endemics, meaning its ancestors were part of the first wave of murine rodents to colonize the island.