Uromys
| Uromys Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Genus: | Uromys Peters, 1867 |
| Species | |
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10, see below | |
Uromys is a genus of rodent from Asia. Also known as the giant naked-tailed rats. There are ten species in this genus with the most recent two described in 1994.
Species
- Biak giant rat, Uromys boeadii Groves & Flannery, 1994
- Giant naked-tailed rat, Uromys anak Thomas, 1907
- Emma's giant rat, Uromys emmae Groves & Flannery, 1994
- Emperor rat, Uromys imperator Thomas, 1888
- Giant white-tailed rat, Uromys caudimaculatus Krefft, 1867
- Great Key Island giant rat, Uromys siebersi Thomas, 1923
- Guadalcanal rat, Uromys porculus Thomas, 1904
- King rat, Uromys rex Thomas, 1888
- Masked white-tailed rat, Uromys hadrourus Winter, 1983
- Bismarck giant rat, Uromys neobritannicus Tate & Archbold, 1935
References
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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