Aethomys

Genus of rodents

Aethomys
Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Recent
Namaqua rock rat
(Aethomys namaquensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Arvicanthini
Genus: Aethomys
Thomas, 1915
Type species
Epimys hindei
Thomas, 1902
Species

Aethomys bocagei
Aethomys chrysophilus
Aethomys granti
Aethomys hindei
Aethomys ineptus
Aethomys kaiseri
Aethomys namaquensis
Aethomys nyikae
Aethomys silindensis
Aethomys stannarius
Aethomys thomasi

Aethomys is a genus of rodent from Africa.[1] They are commonly referred to as rock rats, bush rats or rock mice.

Species

References

  1. ^ Chimimba, Christian T., Nico J. Dippenaar, and Terence J. Robinson. "Morphometric and morphological delineation of southern African species of Aethomys (Rodentia: Muridae)." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 67.4 (1999): 501-527.
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Aethomys–Chrotomys)
Aethomys
Division
Aethomys
(Bush rats)
  • Bocage's rock rat (A. bocagei)
  • red rock rat (A. chrysophilus)
  • Grant's rock mouse (A. (Micaelamys) granti)
  • Hinde's rock rat (A. hindei)
  • Tete veld aethomys (A. ineptus)
  • Kaiser's rock rat (A. kaiseri)
  • Namaqua rock rat (A. (Micaelamys) namaquensis)
  • Nyika rock rat (A. nyikae)
  • Selinda veld rat (A. silindensis)
  • Tinfields rock rat (A. stannarius)
  • Thomas's rock rat (A. thomasi)
Apodemus
Division
Apodemus
(Old world
field mice)
  • striped field mouse (A. agrarius)
  • Alpine field mouse (A. alpicola)
  • small Japanese field mouse (A. argenteus)
  • A. avicennicus
  • Chevrier's field mouse (A. chevrieri)
  • South China field mouse (A. draco)
  • Western broad-toothed field mouse (A. epimelas)
  • yellow-necked mouse (A. flavicollis)
  • Himalayan field mouse (A. gurkha)
  • Caucasus field mouse (A. hyrcanicus)
  • Sichuan field mouse (A. latronum)
  • Eastern broad-toothed field mouse (A. mystacinus)
  • Ward's field mouse (A. pallipes)
  • Korean field mouse (A. peninsulae)
  • Black Sea field mouse (A. ponticus)
  • Kashmir field mouse (A. rusiges)
  • Taiwan field mouse (A. semotus)
  • large Japanese field mouse (A. speciosus)
  • wood mouse (A. sylvaticus)
  • Ural field mouse (A. uralensis )
  • Steppe field mouse (A. witherbyi)
Tokudaia
(Ryukyu spiny rats)
  • Muennink's spiny rat (T. muenninki)
  • Ryukyu spiny rat (T. osimensis)
  • Tokunoshima spiny rat (T. tokunoshimensis)
Arvicanthis
Division
Arvicanthis
(Unstriped
grass mice)
  • Abyssinian grass rat (A. abyssinicus)
  • Sudanian grass rat (A. ansorgei)
  • Blick's grass rat (A. blicki)
  • Nairobi grass rat (A. nairobae)
  • Neumann's grass rat (A. neumanni)
  • African grass rat (A. niloticus)
  • Guinean grass rat (A. rufinus)
Desmomys
  • Harrington's rat (D. harringtoni)
  • Yalden's rat (D. yaldeni)
Lemniscomys
(Striped
grass mice)
  • Barbary striped grass mouse (L. barbarus)
  • Bellier's striped grass mouse (L. bellieri)
  • Griselda's striped grass mouse (L. griselda)
  • Hoogstraal's striped grass mouse (L. hoogstraali)
  • Senegal one-striped grass mouse (L. linulus)
  • Buffoon striped grass mouse (L. macculus)
  • Mittendorf's striped grass mouse (L. mittendorfi)
  • single-striped grass mouse (L. rosalia)
  • Rosevear's striped grass mouse (L. roseveari)
  • typical striped grass mouse (L. striatus)
  • Heuglin's striped grass mouse (L. zebra)
Mylomys
  • African groove-toothed rat (M. dybowskii)
  • Ethiopian mylomys (M. rex)
Pelomys
(Groove-toothed
creek rats)
  • Bell groove-toothed swamp rat (P. campanae)
  • Creek groove-toothed swamp rat (P. fallax)
  • Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat (P. hopkinsi)
  • Issel's groove-toothed swamp rat (P. isseli)
  • least groove-toothed swamp rat (P. minor)
Rhabdomys
  • mesic four-striped grass rat (R. dilectus)
  • four-striped grass mouse (R. pumilio)
Chrotomys
Division
Apomys
  • Luzon Cordillera forest mouse (A. abrae)
  • Luzon Aurora forest mouse (A. aurorae)
  • Mount Banahaw forest mouse (A. banahao)
  • Mount Tapulao forest mouse (A. brownorum)
  • Camiguin forest mouse (A. camiguinensis)
  • Luzon montane forest mouse (A. datae)
  • large Mindoro forest mouse (A. gracilirostris)
  • Mount Apo forest mouse (A. hylocoetes)
  • Mindanao montane forest mouse (A. insignis)
  • Mount Irid forest mouse (A. iridensis)
  • Mindanao lowland forest mouse (A. littoralis)
  • Lubang forest mouse (A. lubangensis)
  • Luzon giant forest mouse (A. magnus)
  • small Luzon forest mouse (A. microdon)
  • Mount Mingan forest mouse (A. minganensis)
  • least forest mouse (A. musculus)
  • long-nosed Luzon forest mouse (A. sacobianus)
  • Sierra Madre forest mouse (A. sierrae)
  • Luzon Zambales forest mouse (A. zambalensis)
Archboldomys
  • Mount Isarog shrew-mouse (A. luzonensis)
  • Large Cordillera shrew-mouse (A. maximus)
Soricomys
Chrotomys
(Luzon
striped rats)
  • Isarog striped shrew-rat (C. gonzalesi)
  • Mindoro striped rat (C. mindorensis)
  • Sibuyan striped shrew-rat (C. sibuyanensis)
  • blazed Luzon shrew-rat (C. silaceus)
  • Luzon striped rat (C. whiteheadi)
Rhynchomys
(Shrewlike rats)
  • Banahao shrew-rat (R. banahao)
  • Isarog shrew-rat (R. isarogensis)
  • Labo shrew-rat (R. labo)
  • Mingan shrew-rat (R. mingan)
  • Mount Data shrew-rat (R. soricoides)
  • Tapulao shrew-rat (R. tapulao)
See also
Colomys–Golunda
Hadromys–Maxomys
Melasmothrix–Mus
Oenomys–Pithecheir
Pogonomys–Pseudomys
Rattus
Stenocephalomys–Xeromys
Otomys
Others
Taxon identifiers
Aethomys


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