The Buka Island mosaic-tailed rat or Buka Island melomys (Melomys spechti) is a species of rat in Oceania.[1]
| Buka Island mosaic-tailed rat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Melomys |
| Species: | M. spechti
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| Binomial name | |
| Melomys spechti Flannery and Wickler, 1990
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It is endemic to Buka Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in northeastern Papua New Guinea.