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 | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Subfamily: | Murinae |
Genus: | Hyomys Thomas, 1904 |
Species | |
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Species
Genus Hyomys - white-eared giant rats
- western white-eared giant rat, Hyomys dammermani Stein, 1933
- eastern white-eared giant rat, Hyomys goliath Milne-Edwards, 1900
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