Papagomys

{{Short description|Genus of rodents}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Late Pleistocene|Recent}}

| image = Papagomys armandvillei.jpg

| image_caption = Stuffed specimen of Papagomys armandvillei

| taxon = Papagomys

| authority = Sody, 1941

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = Papagomys armandvillei

†Papagomys theodorverhoeveni

}}

Papagomys is a genus of very large rats in the tribe Rattini of the subfamily Murinae, with body masses of {{Convert|600-2500|g|lb}}.{{Cite journal |last1=Veatch |first1=E. Grace |last2=Tocheri |first2=Matthew W. |last3=Sutikna |first3=Thomas |last4=McGrath |first4=Kate |last5=Wahyu Saptomo |first5=E. |last6=Jatmiko |last7=Helgen |first7=Kristofer M. |date=May 2019 |title=Temporal shifts in the distribution of murine rodent body size classes at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) reveal new insights into the paleoecology of Homo floresiensis and associated fauna|journal=Journal of Human Evolution |language=en |volume=130 |pages=45–60 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.02.002|doi-access=free |pmid=31010543 |bibcode=2019JHumE.130...45V |hdl=2440/121139 |hdl-access=free }} It contains two species, which are known only from the Indonesian island of Flores:Musser and Carleton, 2005; Zijlstra et al., 2008; Aplin and Helgen, 2010

• Flores giant rat Papagomys armandvillei
• Verhoeven's giant rat Papagomys theodorverhoeveni (possibly extinct, only known from subfossil remains)

A possible unnamed third species is also known from subfossil remains.

Both species have records extending to the early Late Pleistocene.{{Cite journal |last1=van den Bergh |first1=Gerrit D. |last2=Alloway |first2=Brent V. |last3=Storey |first3=Michael |last4=Setiawan |first4=Ruly |last5=Yurnaldi |first5=Dida |last6=Kurniawan |first6=Iwan |last7=Moore |first7=Mark W. |last8=Jatmiko |last9=Brumm |first9=Adam |last10=Flude |first10=Stephanie |last11=Sutikna |first11=Thomas |last12=Setiyabudi |first12=Erick |last13=Prasetyo |first13=Unggul W. |last14=Puspaningrum |first14=Mika R. |last15=Yoga |first15=Ifan |date=October 2022 |title=An integrative geochronological framework for the Pleistocene So'a basin (Flores, Indonesia), and its implications for faunal turnover and hominin arrival |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277379122003523 |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=294 |pages=107721 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107721|bibcode=2022QSRv..29407721V |hdl=10072/418777 |hdl-access=free }} The species are thought to be terrestrial, preferring closed habitats, with P. armandvillei known to engage in burrowing. They are thought to be omnivores, consuming leaves, fruit and invertebrates.