Aceh rat [SEP] IUCN conservation status
Aceh rat
The Aceh rat ("Rattus blangorum") is a species of rodent from the family Muridae. The Aceh rat is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List because only two specimens have ever been recorded, and little is known about the species. The species was first regarded as its own species and then as a subspecies of the Malayan field rat ("Rattus tiomanicus"), but was once again considered distinct due to its small body size.
The Aceh rat is native to Indonesia,
in the South Australian Museum. The rat may have declined from competition with cattle and sheep. There is a possibility that a lesser stick-nest rat was seen in a cave in Western Australia in 1970.
The last specimen was found at Mount Crombie.
Conservation status assessment.
The 2008 release of the updated IUCN status for the lesser stick-nest rat downgraded the conservation status from extinct to critically endangered (possibly extinct), owing to the very slight possibility that a very small population may still exist in