Parotomys
Genus of rodents
| Parotomys Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Recent | |
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| Brants's whistling rat (Parotomys brantsii) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Otomyini |
| Genus: | Parotomys Thomas, 1918 |
| Type species | |
| Euryotis brantsii | |
| Species | |
| Parotomys brantsii | |
Parotomys is a small genus of rodent in the family Muridae.[1] Member species are found in the African countries of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. It contains the following two species:
- Brants's whistling rat (Parotomys brantsii)
- Littledale's whistling rat (Parotomys littledalei)
References
- ^ Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Otomys)
(African karoo rats)
- Sloggett's vlei rat (M. sloggetti)
- Bush vlei rat (M. unisulcatus)
(Vlei rats)
- Angolan vlei rat (O. anchietae)
- Angoni vlei rat (O. angoniensis)
- Barbour's vlei rat (O. barbouri)
- Burton's vlei rat (O. burtoni)
- Cheesman's vlei rat (O. cheesmani)
- Cuanza vlei rat (O. cuanzensis)
- Ruwenzori vlei rat (O. dartmouthi)
- Dent's vlei rat (O. denti)
- Dollman's vlei rat (O. dollmani)
- Charada vlei rat (O. fortior)
- Heller's vlei rat (O. helleri)
- Southern African vlei rat (O. irroratus)
- Mount Elgon vlei rat (O. jacksoni)
- Tanzanian vlei rat (O. lacustris)
- Laminate vlei rat (O. laminatus)
- Large vlei rat (O. maximus)
- Western vlei rat (O. occidentalis)
- Afroalpine vlei rat (O. orestes)
- Saunder's vlei rat (O. saundersiae)
- Simien vlei rat (O. simiensis)
- Thomas's vlei rat (O. thomasi)
- Tropical vlei rat (O. tropicalis)
- Typical vlei rat (O. typus)
- Uzungwe vlei rat (O. uzungwensis)
- Yalden's vlei rat (O. yaldeni)
- Mount Kilimanjaro vlei rat (O. zinki)
(Whistling rats)
- Brants's whistling rat (P. brantsii)
- Littledale's whistling rat (P. littledalei)
- See also
- Aethomys–Chrotomys
- Colomys–Golunda
- Hadromys–Maxomys
- Melasmothrix–Mus
- Oenomys–Pithecheir
- Pogonomys–Pseudomys
- Rattus
- Stenocephalomys–Xeromys
- Others
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