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White-eared giant rat

The white-eared giant rats, genus Hyomys, are a group of Old World rats from New Guinea.

White-eared giant rat
Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Hydromyini
Genus: Hyomys
Thomas, 1904
Type species
Hyomys meeki[1]
Species

See text.

Description

These large rodents belong to the genus Hyomys, with head and body lengths between 295–390 mm (11.6–15.4 in), tail lengths between 256–381 mm (10.1–15.0 in), and a weight of up to 945 g (33.3 oz).[2][incomplete short citation]

Species

Genus Hyomys - white-eared giant rats

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Novak, 1999

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