Hydromys
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| Hydromys Temporal range: Pleistocene - Recent |
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| Hydromys chrysogaster | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Genus: | Hydromys É. Geoffroy, 1804 |
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| Hydromys chrysogaster É. Geoffroy, 1804 |
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Hydromys chrysogaster |
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Hydromys is a genus of rodents in the subfamily Murinae.
[edit] List of species
Genus Hydromys - water rats
- Rakali, Hydromys chrysogaster E. Geoffroy, 1804
- Western Water Rat, Hydromys hussoni Musser and Piik, 1982
- New Britain Water Rat, Hydromys neobrittanicus Tate and Archbold, 1935
- Hydromys ziegleri Helgen, 2005
Note: Hydromys habbema Tate and Archbold, 1941 and Hydromys shawmayeri (Hinton, 1943) are placed within Baiyankamys after Helgen, 2005.
[edit] References
- Helgen, K. M. 2005. The amphibious murines of New Guinea (Rodentia, Muridae): the generic status of Baiyankamys and description of a new species of Hydromys. Zootaxa, 913:1-20.
- 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.
[edit] External links
- "Hydromys E. Geoffroy, 1804". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=585022.
