Fox's shaggy rat

Species of mammal

Fox's shaggy rat
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Dasymys
Species:
D. foxi
Binomial name
Dasymys foxi
Thomas, 1912

Fox's shaggy rat (Dasymys foxi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Nigeria. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swampland, and plantations. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. ^ Kennerley, R.; Taylor, P. (2017). "Dasymys foxi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T6268A22436384. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T6268A22436384.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  • 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. pp. 1315–1316. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Colomys–Golunda)
Colomys
Division
Colomys
  • African wading rat (C. goslingi)
Nilopegamys
  • Ethiopian amphibious rat (N. plumbeus)
Zelotomys
(Stink mice)
  • Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse (Z. hildegardeae)
  • Woosnam's broad-headed mouse (Z. woosnami)
Crunomys
Division
Crunomys
  • Celebes shrew-rat (C. celebensis)
  • Northern Luzon shrew-rat (C. fallax)
  • Mindanao shrew-rat (C. melanius)
  • Katanglad shrew-mouse (C. suncoides)
Sommeromys
  • Sommer's Sulawesi rat (S. macrorhinos)
Dacnomys
Division
Anonymomys
  • Mindoro climbing rat (A. mindorensis)
Chiromyscus
  • Fea's tree rat (C. chiropus)
Dacnomys
  • Millard's rat (D. millardi)
Leopoldamys
(Long-tailed
giant rats)
  • Sundaic mountain leopoldamys (L. ciliatus)
  • Diwangkara's long-tailed giant rat (L. diwangkarai)
  • Edwards's long-tailed giant rat (L. edwardsi)
  • Millet's leopoldamys (L. milleti)
  • Neill's long-tailed giant rat (L. neilli)
  • Long-tailed giant rat (L. sabanus)
  • Mentawai long-tailed giant rat (L. siporanus)
Niviventer
(White-bellied rats)
  • Anderson's white-bellied rat (N. andersoni)
  • Brahma white-bellied rat (N. brahma)
  • Cameron Highlands white-bellied rat (N. cameroni)
  • Chinese white-bellied rat (N. confucianus)
  • Coxing's white-bellied rat (N. coninga)
  • Dark-tailed tree rat (N. cremoriventer)
  • Oldfield white-bellied rat (N. culturatus)
  • Smoke-bellied rat (N. eha)
  • Large white-bellied rat (N. excelsior)
  • Montane Sumatran white-bellied rat (N. fraternus)
  • Chestnut white-bellied rat (N. fulvescens)
  • Limestone rat (N. hinpoon)
  • Lang Bian white-bellied rat (N. langbianis)
  • Narrow-tailed white-bellied rat (N. lepturus)
  • Hainan white-bellied rat (N. lotipes)
  • White-bellied rat (N. niviventer)
  • Long-tailed mountain rat (N. rapit)
  • Tenasserim white-bellied rat (N. tenaster)
Saxatilomys
  • Paulina's limestone rat (S. paulinae)
Srilankamys
  • Ohiya rat (S. ohiensis)
Tonkinomys
  • Daovantien's limestone rat (T. daovantieni)
Dasymys
Division
Dasymys
(Shaggy
swamp rats)
  • Glover Allen's dasymys (D. alleni)
  • Crawford-Cabral's shaggy rat (D. cabrali)
  • Fox's shaggy rat (D. foxi)
  • African marsh rat (D. incomtus)
  • Montane shaggy rat (D. montanus)
  • Angolan marsh rat (D. nudipes)
  • Robert's shaggy rat (D. robertsii)
  • West African shaggy rat (D. rufulus)
  • Rwandan shaggy rat (D. rwandae)
  • D. shortridgei
  • Tanzanian shaggy rat (D. sua)
Echiothrix
Division
Echiothrix
  • Central Sulawesi echiothrix (E. centrosa)
  • Northern Sulawesi echiothrix (E. leucura)
Golunda
Division
Golunda
  • Indian bush rat (G. ellioti)
See also
Aethomys–Chrotomys
Hadromys–Maxomys
Melasmothrix–Mus
Oenomys–Pithecheir
Pogonomys–Pseudomys
Rattus
Stenocephalomys–Xeromys
Otomys
Others
Taxon identifiers
Dasymys foxi


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