Shaw Mayer's water rat

Shaw Mayer's water rat (Baiyankamys shawmayeri) is a semiaquatic species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in the mountains of Papua New Guinea.

Shaw Mayer's water rat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Baiyankamys
Species:	B. shawmayeri
Binomial name
Baiyankamys shawmayeri Hinton, 1943
Synonyms
Hydromys shawmayeri

Names

It is known as kuypep kuykuy-sek in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea.^[2]

References

1. Aplin, K.; Dickman, C.; Singadan, R.; Menzies, J.; Helgen, K.; Wright, D. & Allison, A. (2016). "Baiyankamys shawmayeri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T10314A115097322. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T10314A22410031.en. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
2. Pawley, Andrew and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes. Canberra. Pacific Linguistics.

• Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". 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. 1334. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.