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Diplothrix legata
Rare visitor: recorded only occasionally in this country
Ryukyu Islands Tree Rat (Diplothrix legata) is a arboreal rat recorded in the Japan mammal catalogue. This concise entry identifies the accepted catalogue taxon without adding ecology that has not yet been verified from a species-level source (Mammal Diversity Database range record). Japan's national Red List records it as Endangered (Japan MOE Red List 2020).