White-eared giant rat

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White-eared giant rats
Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Genus: Hyomys
Thomas, 1904
Species

See text.

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

Species

Genus Hyomys - white-eared rats

  • Western White-eared Giant Rat, Hyomys dammermani Stein, 1933
  • Eastern White-eared Giant Rat, Hyomys goliath Milne-Edwards, 1900
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