Thamnomys

Genus of rodents

Thamnomys
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Arvicanthini
Genus: Thamnomys
Thomas, 1907
Type species
Thamnomys venustus
Species
  • Thamnomys kempi
  • Thamnomys major
  • Thamnomys venustus

Thamnomys is a genus of Old World rats from East Central Africa.

Species

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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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Oenomys–Pithecheir)
Oenomys
Division
Grammomys
  • Arid thicket rat (G. aridulus)
  • G. brevirostris
  • Bunting's thicket rat (G. buntingi)
  • Gray-headed thicket rat (G. caniceps)
  • Mozambique thicket rat (G. cometes)
  • Woodland thicket rat (G. dolichurus)
  • Forest thicket rat (G. dryas)
  • Giant thicket rat (G. gigas)
  • Ruwenzori thicket rat (G. ibeanus)
  • Eastern rainforest thicket rat (G. kuru)
  • Macmillan's thicket rat (G. macmillani)
  • Ethiopian thicket rat (G. minnae)
  • Shining thicket rat (G. poensis)
  • Selous thicket rat (G. selousi)
Lamottemys
  • Mount Oku rat (L. okuensis)
Oenomys
(Rufous-nosed rats)
  • Common rufous-nosed rat (O. hypoxanthus)
  • Ghana rufous-nosed rat (O. ornatus)
Thallomys
(Acacia rats)
  • Loring's rat (T. loringi)
  • Black-tailed tree rat (T. nigricauda)
  • Acacia rat (T. paedulcus)
  • Shortridge's rat (T. shortridgei)
Thamnomys
(Thicket rats)
  • Kemp's thicket rat (T. kempi)
  • Hatt's thicket rat (T. major)
  • Charming thicket rat (T. venustus)
Phloeomys
Division
Batomys
(Luzon and Mindanao
forest rats)
  • Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat (B. dentatus)
  • Luzon hairy-tailed rat (B. granti)
  • Hamiguitan hairy-tailed rat (B. hamiguitan)
  • Dinagat hairy-tailed rat (B. russatus)
  • Mindanao hairy-tailed rat (B. salomonseni)
  • Mount Isarog hairy-tailed rat (B. uragon)
Carpomys
(Luzon rats)
  • Short-footed Luzon tree rat (C. melanurus)
  • White-bellied Luzon tree rat (C. phaeurus)
Crateromys
(Cloudrunners)
  • Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat (C. australis)
  • Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat (C. schadenbergi)
  • Panay cloudrunner (C. heaneyi)
  • Ilin Island cloudrunner (C. paulus)
Phloeomys
(Slender-tailed
cloud rats)
  • Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat (P. cumingi)
  • Northern Luzon giant cloud rat (P. pallidus)
Pithecheir
Division
Eropeplus
  • Sulawesi soft-furred rat (E. canus)
Lenomys
  • Trefoil-toothed giant rat (L. meyeri)
Lenothrix
  • Gray tree rat (L. canus)
Margaretamys
(Margareta's rats)
  • Beccari's margareta rat (M. beccarii)
  • Christine's margareta rat (M. christinae)
  • Elegant margareta rat (M. elegans)
  • Little margareta rat (M. parvus)
Pithecheir
(Monkey-footed rats)
  • Red tree rat (P. melanurus)
  • Malayan tree rat (P. parvus)
Pithecheirops
  • Bornean pithecheirops (P. otion)
See also
Aethomys–Chrotomys
Colomys–Golunda
Hadromys–Maxomys
Melasmothrix–Mus
Pogonomys–Pseudomys
Rattus
Stenocephalomys–Xeromys
Otomys
Others
Taxon identifiers
Thamnomys


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