Oenomys

Genus of rodents

Oenomys
Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent
Oenomys hypoxanthus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Arvicanthini
Genus: Oenomys
Thomas, 1904
Type species
Mus hypoxanthus
Species

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Oenomys is a genus of African rodents. Known as rufous-nosed rats or rusty-nosed rats, they occur from Sierra Leone east to Ethiopia and as far south as northern Angola. The nose is reddish, or at least the cheeks, which suggested both the English and scientific names (oeno- means "wine-colored" and -mys denotes a mouselike animal).

Genus Oenomys - rufous-nosed rats

  • Common rufous-nosed rat, Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran, 1855)
    • Oenomys hypoxanthus albiventris (Eisentraut, 1968)
  • Ghana rufous-nosed rat, Oenomys ornatus (Thomas, 1911)
  • Oenomys tiercelini
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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
Oenomys


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