| Uromys Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
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| Uromys caudimaculatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Hydromyini |
| Genus: | Uromys Peters, 1867 |
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| Mus macropus[1] | |
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Uromys is a genus of rodents found in Melanesia and Australia. They are known as the giant naked-tailed rats. There are eleven species in the genus, with the most recent described in 2017.
Species
[edit]- Giant naked-tailed rat, Uromys anak Thomas, 1907
- Biak giant rat, Uromys boeadii Groves & Flannery, 1994
- Giant white-tailed rat, Uromys caudimaculatus Krefft, 1867
- Emma's giant rat, Uromys emmae Groves & Flannery, 1994
- Masked white-tailed rat, Uromys hadrourus Winter, 1983
- Emperor rat, Uromys imperator Thomas, 1888
- Bismarck giant rat, Uromys neobritannicus Tate & Archbold, 1935
- Guadalcanal rat, Uromys porculus Thomas, 1904
- King rat, Uromys rex Thomas, 1888
- Great Key Island giant rat, Uromys siebersi Thomas, 1923
- Vangunu giant rat, Uromys vika Lavery & Judge, 2017[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Lavery, T. H.; Judge, H.; A new species of giant rat (Muridae, Uromys) from Vangunu, Solomon Islands, Journal of Mammalogy, gyx116, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx116
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