Robert's shaggy rat

Species of rodent

Robert's shaggy rat
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Dasymys
Species:	D. robertsii
Binomial name
*Dasymys robertsii* Mullin, Taylor & Pillay, 2004

Robert's shaggy rat (Dasymys robertsii) is a species of rodent in the genus Dasymys that lives in South Africa. It was described in 2004.

References

Mullin, SK, Taylor, PJ & Pillay, N. 2004. Skull size and shape of Dasymys (Rodentia, Muridae) from sub-Saharan Africa. Mammalia 68 (2-3) :185-220.
Verheyen, W., Hulselmans, JLJ, Dierckx, T., Colyn, M., Leirs, H. & Verheyen, E. 2003. A craniometric and genetic approach to the systematics of the genus Dasymys Peters, 1875 and the description of three new taxa (Rodentia, Muridae, Africa). Bulletin of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences 73:27-71.

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