Hoogerwerf's rat

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| name = Hoogerwerf's rat

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{Cite journal | author = Clayton, E. | title = Rattus hoogerwerfi | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2016 | page = e.T19336A115147169 | publisher = IUCN | date = 2016 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/19336/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T19336A22441662.en | access-date = 12 December 2017| doi-access = free }}

| genus = Rattus

| species = hoogerwerfi

| authority = Chasen, 1939

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Hoogerwerf's rat (Rattus hoogerwerfi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is named after zoologist Andries Hoogerwerf and is found only in western Sumatra, Indonesia, including Mount Leuser, where it is found only above 2000 m.

It is known from few museum specimens. Genetic analysis indicate its closest relative is Rattus korinchi, another Sumatran mountain rat from which it diverged around 1.4 million years ago.Miguel Camacho-Sanchez and Jennifer Leonard (2020) Mitogenomes reveal multiple colonization by Rattus in Sundaland. Journal of Heredity. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaa014