Melomys

Melomys: Melomys
Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent

Melomys cervinipes

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Rodentia

Family: Muridae

Subfamily: Murinae

Genus: Melomys
Thomas, 1922

Species

Melomys aerosus
Melomys arcium
Melomys bannisteri
Melomys bougainville
Melomys burtoni
Melomys capensis
Melomys caurinus
Melomys cervinipes
Melomys cooperae
Melomys dollmani
Melomys fraterculus
Melomys frigicola
Melomys fulgens
Melomys howi
Melomys leucogaster
Melomys lutillus
Melomys matambuai
Melomys obiensis
Melomys paveli
Melomys rubicola
Melomys rufescens
Melomys spechti
Melomys talaudium

Melomys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae. It contains the following species:

Dusky Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys aerosus)

Rossel Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys arcium)

Bannister's Rat (Great Key Island Mosaic-tailed Rat) (Melomys bannisteri)

Bougainville Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys bougainville)

Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys burtoni)

Cape York Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys capensis)

Short-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys caurinus)

Fawn-footed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys cervinipes)

Yamdena Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys cooperae)

Dollman's Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys dollmani)

Manusela Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys fraterculus)

Snow Mountains Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys frigicola)

Seram Long-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys fulgens)

Riama Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys howi)

White-bellied Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys leucogaster)

Papua Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys lutillus)

Manus Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys matambuai)

Obi Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys obiensis)

Pavel's Seram Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys paveli)

Bramble Cay Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys rubicola)

Black-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys rufescens)

Buka Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys spechti)

Long-tailed Talaud Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys talaudium)

References

Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

v · d · eExtant species of subfamily Murinae

Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Superorder: Euarchontoglires · Order: Rodentia · Family: Muridae

Aethomys, Apodemus, Arvicanthis, Chrotomys divisions

Aethomys
Division

Aethomys
(Bush rats)

Bocage's Rock Rat (A. bocagei) · Red Rock Rat (A. chrysophilus) · Grant's Rock Rat (A. (Micaelamys) granti) · Hinde's Rock Rat (A. hindei) · Tete Veld Aethomys (A. ineptus) · Kaiser's Rock Rat (A. kaiseri) · Namaqua Rock Rat (A. (Micaelamys) namaquensis) · Nyika Rock Rat (A. nyikae) · Silinda Rock Rat (A. silindensis) · Tinfields Rock Rat (A. stannarius) · Thomas's Rock Rat (A. thomasi)

Apodemus
Division

Apodemus
(Old world
field mice)

Striped Field Mouse (A. agrarius) · Alpine Field Mouse (A. alpicola) · Small Japanese Field Mouse (A. argenteus) · A. avicennicus · Chevrier's Field Mouse (A. chevrieri) · South China Field Mouse (A. draco) · Yellow-necked Mouse (A. flavicollis) · Himalayan Field Mouse (A. gurkha) · Caucasus Field Mouse (A. hyrcanicus) · Sichuan Field Mouse (A. latronum) · Pygmy Field Mouse (A. microps) · Broad-toothed Field Mouse (A. mystacinus) · Western Broad-toothed Field Mouse (A. (mystacinus) epimelas) · Ward's Field Mouse (A. pallipes) · Korean Field Mouse (A. peninsulae) · Black Sea Field Mouse (A. ponticus) · Kashmir Field Mouse (A. rusiges) · Taiwan Field Mouse (A. semotus) · Large Japanese Field Mouse (A. speciosus) · Wood Mouse (A. sylvaticus) · Ural Field Mouse (A. uralensis ) · Steppe Field Mouse (A. witherbyi)

Tokudaia
(Ryukyu spiny rats)

Muennink's Spiny Rat (T. muenninki) · Ryukyu Spiny Rat (T. osimensis) · Tokunoshima Spiny Rat (T. tokunoshimensis)

Arvicanthis
Division

Arvicanthis
(Unstriped
grass mice)

Abyssinian Grass Rat (A. abyssinicus) · Sudanian Grass Rat (A. ansorgei) · Blick's Grass Rat (A. blicki) · Nairobi Grass Rat (A. nairobae) · Neumann's Grass Rat (A. neumanni) · African Grass Rat (A. niloticus) · Guinean Grass Rat (A. rufinus)

Desmomys

Harrington's Rat (D. harringtoni) · Yalden's Rat (D. yaldeni)

Lemniscomys
(Striped
grass mice)

Barbary Striped Grass Mouse (L. barbarus) · Bellier's Striped Grass Mouse (L. bellieri) · Griselda's Striped Grass Mouse (L. griselda) · Hoogstral's Striped Grass Mouse (L. hoogstraali) · Senegal One-striped Grass Mouse (L. linulus) · Buffoon Striped Grass Mouse (L. macculus) · Mittendorf's Striped Grass Mouse (L. mittendorfi) · Single-striped Grass Mouse (L. rosalia) · Rosevear's Striped Grass Mouse (L. roseveari) · Typical Striped Grass Mouse (L. striatus) · Heuglin's Striped Grass Mouse (L. zebra)

Mylomys

African Groove-toothed Rat (M. dybowskii) · M. rex

Pelomys
(Groove-toothed
creek rats)

Bell Groove-toothed Swamp Rat (P. campanae) · Creek Groove-toothed Swamp Rat (P. fallax) · Hopkins's Groove-toothed Swamp Rat (P. hopkinsi) · Issel's Groove-toothed Swamp Rat (P. isseli) · Least Groove-toothed Swamp Rat (P. minor)

Rhabdomys

R. dilectus · Four-Striped Grass Mouse (R. pumilio)

Chrotomys
Division

Apomys

Luzon Cordillera Forest Mouse (A. abrae) · Camiguin Forest Mouse (A. camiguinensis) · Luzon Montane Forest Mouse (A. datae) · Large Mindoro Forest Mouse (A. gracilirostris) · Mount Apo Forest Mouse (A. hylocoetes) · Mindanao Montane Forest Mouse (A. insignis) · Mindanao Lowland Forest Mouse (A. littoralis) · Small Luzon Forest Mouse (A. microdon) · Least Forest Mouse (A. musculus) · Long-nosed Luzon Forest Mouse (A. sacobianus)

Archboldomys
(Mount Isarog
shrew rats)

Mount Isarog Shrew Mouse (A. luzonensis) · Sierra Madre Shrew Mouse (A. musseri) · Chrotomys
(Luzon
striped rats)

Luzon Striped Rat (C. whiteheadi) · Mindoro Striped Rat (C. mindorensis) · Isarog Striped Shrew-Rat (C. gonzalesi) · Blazed Luzon Shrew Rat (C. silaceus) · Rhynchomys
(Shrewlike rats)

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)

Niviventer
(White-bellied rats)

Anderson's White-bellied Rat (N. andersoni) · Brahma White-bellied Rat (N. brahma) · Saxatilomys

Srilankamys

Ohiya Rat (S. ohiensis)

Tonkinomys

Dasymys
(Shaggy
swamp rats)

D. shortridgei · Echiothrix

Central Sulawesi Spiny Rat (E. centrosa) · Sulawesi Spiny Rat (E. leucura)

Golunda
Division

Golunda

Indian Bush Rat (G. ellioti)

Hadromys, Hybomys, Hydromys, Lorentzimys, Malacomys, Maxomys divisions

Hadromys
Division

Hadromys
(Manipur Bush Rat)

Manipur Bush Rat (H. humei) · Dephomys
(Defua rats)

Defua Rat (D. defua) · Ivory Coast Rat (D. eburneae)

Hybomys
(Hump-nosed mice)

Eisentraut's Striped Mouse (H. badius) · Father Basilio's Striped Mouse (H. basilii) · Moon Striped Mouse (H. lunaris) · Miller's Striped Mouse (H. planifrons) · Temminck's Striped Mouse (H. trivirgatus) · Peters's Striped Mouse (H. univittatus)

Stochomys

Target Rat (S. longicaudatus)

Hydromys
Division

Baiyankamys

Mountain Water Rat (B. habbema) · Shaw Mayer's Water Rat (B. shawmayeri)

Crossomys

Earless Water Rat (C. moncktoni)

Hydromys
(Water rats)

Rakali (H. chrysogaster) · Western Water Rat (H. hussoni) · New Britain Water Rat (H. neobrittanicus) · Ziegler's Water Rat (H. ziegleri)

Microhydromys

Parahydromys

New Guinea Waterside Rat (P. asper)

Paraleptomys

Northern Water Rat (P. rufilatus) · Short-haired Water Rat (P. wilhelmina)

Lorentzimys
Division

Lorentzimys

New Guinean Jumping Mouse (L. nouhuysi)

Malacomys
Division

Malacomys
(Big-eared swamp rats)

Cansdale's Swamp Rat (M. cansdalei) · Edward's Swamp Rat (M. edwardsi) · Big-eared Swamp Rat (M. longipes)

Maxomys
Division

Maxomys
(Rajah rats)

Mountain Spiny Rat (M. alticola) · Small Spiny Rat (M. baeodon) · Bartels's Spiny Rat (M. bartelsii) · Dollman's Spiny Rat (M. dollmani) · Hellwald's Spiny Rat (M. hellwaldii) · Sumatran Spiny Rat (M. hylomyoides) · Malayan Mountain Spiny Rat (M. inas) · Fat-Nosed Spiny Rat (M. inflatus) · Mo's Spiny Rat (M. moi) · Musschenbroek's Spiny Rat (M. musschenbroekii) · Chestnut-Bellied Spiny Rat (M. ochraceiventer) · Pagai Spiny Rat (M. pagensis) · Palawan Spiny Rat (M. panglima) · Rajah Spiny Rat (M. rajah) · Red Spiny Rat (M. surifer) · Watts's Spiny Rat (M. wattsi) · Whitehead's Spiny Rat (M. whiteheadi)

Melasmothrix, Micromys, Millardia, Mus divisions

Melasmothrix
Division

Melasmothrix

Sulawesian Shrew Rat (M. naso)

Tateomys
(Greater Sulawesian
shrew rats)

Long-tailed Shrew Rat (T. macrocercus) · Tate's Shrew Rat (T. rhinogradoides)

Micromys
Division

Chiropodomys
(Pencil-tailed
tree mice)

Palawan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse (C. calamianensis) · Indomalayan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse (C. gliroides) · Koopman's Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse (C. karlkoopmani) · Large Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse (C. major) · Gray-bellied Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse (C. muroides) · Small Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse (C. pusillus)

Haeromys
(Pygmy tree mice)

Ranee Mouse (H. margarettae) · Minahassa Ranee Mouse (H. minahassae) · Lesser Ranee Mouse (H. pusillus)

Hapalomys
(Marmoset rats)

Delacour's Marmoset Rat (H. delacouri) · Marmoset Rat (H. longicaudatus)

Micromys

Micromys erythrotis · Eurasian Harvest Mouse (M. minutus)

Vandeleuria
(Long-tailed
climbing mice)

Nilgiri Long-tailed Tree Mouse (V. nilagirica) · Nolthenius's Long-tailed Climbing Mouse (V. nolthenii) · Asiatic Long-tailed Climbing Mouse (V. oleracea)

Vernaya

Red Climbing Mouse (V. fulva)

Millardia
Division

Cremnomys

Cutch Rat (C. cutchicus) · Elvira Rat (C. elvira)

Diomys

Crump's Mouse (D. crumpi)

Madromys

Blanford's Rat (M. blanfordi)

Millardia
(Asian
soft-furred rats)

Sand-colored Soft-furred Rat (M. gleadowi) · Miss Ryley's Soft-furred Rat (M. kathleenae) · Kondana Soft-furred Rat (M. kondana) · Soft-furred Rat (M. meltada)

Mus Division

Muriculus

Ethiopian Striped Mouse (M. imberbis)

Mus
(Typical mice)

Subgenus Coelomys: Sumatran Shrewlike Mouse (M. crociduroides) · Mayor's Mouse (M. mayori) · Gairdner's Shrewmouse (M. pahari) · Volcano Mouse (M. vulcani)
M. lepidoides group: M. lepidoides
Subgenus Mus: Little Indian Field Mouse (M. booduga) · Ryukyu Mouse (M. caroli) · Fawn-colored Mouse (M. cervicolor) · Cook's Mouse (M. cookii) · Cypriot Mouse (M. cypriacus) · Servant Mouse (M. famulus) · Sheath-tailed Mouse (M. fragilicauda) · Macedonian Mouse (M. macedonicus) · House mouse (M. musculus) · Shiny Little House Mouse of Pegu (M. nitidulus) · Steppe Mouse (M. spicilegus) · Algerian Mouse (M. spretus) · Earth-colored Mouse (M. terricolor)
Subgenus Nannomys: Baoule's Mouse (M. baoulei) · Toad Mouse (M. bufo) · Callewaert's Mouse (M. callewaerti) · Gounda Mouse (M. goundae) · Hausa Mouse (M. haussa) · Desert Pygmy Mouse (M. indutus) · Mahomet Mouse (M. mahomet) · Matthey's Mouse (M. mattheyi) · African Pygmy Mouse (M. minutoides) · Temminck's Mouse (M. musculoides) · Neave's Mouse (M. neavei) · Free State Pygmy Mouse (M. orangiae) · Oubangui Mouse (M. oubanguii) · Peters's Mouse (M. setulosus) · Setzer's Pygmy Mouse (M. setzeri) · Thomas's Pygmy Mouse (M. sorella) · Delicate Mouse (M. tenellus) · Gray-Bellied Pygmy Mouse (M. triton)
Subgenus Pyromys: Ceylon Spiny Mouse (M. fernandoni) · Phillips's Mouse (M. phillipsi) · Flat-Haired Mouse (M. platythrix) · Rock-loving Mouse (M. saxicola) · Shortridge's Mouse (M. shortridgei)

Oenomys, Phloeomys, Pithecheir divisions

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) · 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) · 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)

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) · 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

Abeomelomys

Highland Brush Mouse (A. sevia)

Anisomys

Squirrel-toothed Rat (A. imitator)

Chiruromys

Greater Tree Mouse (C. forbesi) · Lamia (C. lamia) · Lesser Tree Mouse (C. vates)

Coccymys

White-Toothed Brush Mouse (C. albidens) · C. kirrhos · Rümmler's Brush Mouse (C. ruemmleri) · C. shawmayeri

Hyomys
(White-eared rats)

Western White-eared Giant Rat (H. dammermani) · Eastern White-eared Giant Rat (H. goliath)

Macruromys
(New Guinean rats)

Lesser Small-toothed Rat (M. elegans) · Eastern Small-toothed Rat (M. major)

Mallomys
(Giant tree rats)

De Vis's Woolly Rat (M. aroaensis) · Alpine Woolly Rat (M. gunung) · Subalpine Woolly Rat (M. istapantap) · Rothschild's Woolly Rat (M. rothschildi) · Bosavi Woolly Rat (M. sp. nov.) · Mammelomys

Large-scaled Mosaic-tailed Rat (M. lanosus) · Large Mosaic-tailed Rat (M. rattoides)

Pogonomelomys
(Rummler's
mosaic tailed rats)

Lowland Brush Mouse (P. bruijni) · Shaw Mayer's Brush Mouse (P. mayeri)

Pogonomys
(Prehensile-tailed rats)

Champion's Tree Mouse (P. championi) · Xenuromys

Mimic Tree-Rat (X. barbatus)

Pseudomys
Division

Conilurus

Brush-Tailed Rabbit Rat (C. penicillatus)

Leggadina

Forrest's Mouse (L. forresti) · Lakeland Downs Mouse (L. lakedownensis)

Leporillus
(Australian
stick-nest rats)

Lesser Stick-nest Rat (L. apicalis) · Greater Stick-Nest Rat (L. conditor)

Mastacomys

Broad-toothed Mouse (M. fuscus)

Mesembriomys
(Tree rats)

Black-footed Tree-rat (M. gouldii) · Golden-Backed Tree Rat (M. macrurus)

Notomys
(Australian
hopping mice)

Spinifex Hopping Mouse (N. alexis) · Northern Hopping Mouse (N. aquilo) · Fawn Hopping Mouse (N. cervinus) · Dusky Hopping Mouse (N. fuscus) · Mitchell's Hopping Mouse (N. mitchellii)

Pseudomys
(Australian native mice)

Ash-grey Mouse (P. albocinereus) · Silky Mouse (P. apodemoides) · Plains Rat (P. australis) · Bolam's Mouse (P. bolami) · Kakadu Pebble-mound Mouse (P. calabyi) · Western Pebble-mound Mouse (P. chapmani) · Little Native Mouse (P. delicatulus) · Desert Mouse (P. desertor) · Shark Bay Mouse (P. fieldi) · Smoky Mouse (P. fumeus) · Eastern Chestnut Mouse (P. gracilicaudatus) · Sandy Inland Mouse (P. hermannsburgensis) · Long-tailed Mouse (P. higginsi) · Central Pebble-mound Mouse (P. johnsoni) · Western Chestnut Mouse (P. nanus) · New Holland Mouse (P. novaehollandiae) · Western Mouse (P. occidentalis) · Hastings River Mouse (P. oralis) · Country Mouse (P. patrius) · Pilliga Mouse (P. pilligaensis) · Heath Mouse (P. shortridgei)

Zyzomys
(Thick-tailed rats)

Common Rock Rat (Z. argurus) · Arnhem Land Rock Rat (Z. maini) · Carpentarian Rock Rat (Z. palatilis) · Central Rock Rat (Z. pedunculatus) · Kimberley Rock Rat (Z. woodwardi)

Rattus division

Abditomys
Luzon Broad-toothed Rat (A. latidens)

Bandicota
(Bandicoot rats)
Lesser Bandicoot Rat (B. bengalensis) · Greater Bandicoot Rat (B. indica) · Savile's Bandicoot Rat (B. savilei)

Berylmys
(White-toothed rats)
Small White-toothed Rat (B. berdmorei) · Bower's White-toothed Rat (B. bowersi) · Kenneth's White-toothed Rat (B. mackenziei) · Manipur White-toothed Rat (B. manipulus)

Bullimus
Bagobo Rat (B. bagobus) · Camiguin Forest Rat (B. gamay) · Lagre Luzon Forest Rat (B. luzonicus)

Bunomys
Andrew's Hill Rat (B. andrewsi) · Yellow-Haired Hill Rat (B. chrysocomus) · Heavenly Hill Rat (B. coelestis) · Fraternal Hill Rat (B. fratrorum) · Heinrich's Hill Rat (B. heinrichi) · Inland Hill Rat (B. penitus) · Long-Headed Hill Rat (B. prolatus)

Diplothrix
Ryukyu Long-tailed Giant Rat (D. legatus)

Kadarsanomys
Sody's Tree Rat (K. sodyi)

Komodomys
Komodo Rat (K. rintjanus)

Limnomys
Nesokia

Bunn's Short-tailed Bandicoot Rat (N. bunnii) · Short-tailed Bandicoot Rat (N. indica)

Nesoromys
Ceram Rat (N. ceramicus)

Palawanomys
Palawan Soft-Furred Mountain Rat (P. furvus)

Papagomys
Flores Giant Rat (P. armandvillei)

Paruromys
Sulawesi Giant Rat (P. dominator)

Paulamys
Flores Long-nosed Rat (P. naso)

Rattus
(Typical rats)
Annandale's Rat (R. annandalei) · Enggano Rat (R. enganus) · Philippine Forest Rat (R. everetti) · Polynesian Rat (R. exulans) · Hainald's Rat (R. hainaldi) · Hoogerwerf's Rat (R. hoogerwerfi) · Korinch's Rat (R. korinchi) · Nillu Rat (R. montanus) · Molaccan Prehensile-tailed Rat (R. morotaiensis) · Kerala Rat (R. ranjiniae) · New Ireland Rat (R. sanila) · Andaman Rat (R. stoicus) · Timor Rat (R. timorensis)
R. norvegicus group: Himalayan Field Rat (R. nitidus) · Brown Rat (R. norvegicus) · Turkestan Rat (R. pyctoris)
R. rattus group: Sunburned Rat (R. adustus) · Sikkim Rat (R. andamanensis) · Rice-field Rat (R. argentiventer) · Summit Rat (R. baluensis) · R. salocco · Yellow-tailed Rat (R. xanthurus)
R. leucopus group: Sundamys
(Giant Sunda rats)

Mountain Giant Sunda Rat (S. infraluteus) · Bartels's Rat (S. maxi) · Müller's Giant Sunda Rat (S. muelleri)

Taeromys
Salokko Rat (T. arcuatus) · Lovely-Haired Rat (T. callitrichus) · Celebes Rat (T. celebensis) · Sulawesi Montane Rat (T. hamatus) · Tarsomys

Long-footed Rat (T. apoensis) · Spiny Long-footed Rat (T. echinatus)

Tryphomys
Luzon Short-nosed Rat (T. adustus)

Stenocephalomys, Uromys, Xeromys divisions

Stenocephalomys
Division

Heimyscus

African Smoky Mouse (H. fumosus)

Hylomyscus
(African wood mice)

H. aeta group: Beaded Wood Mouse (H. aeta) · H. grandis
H. alleni group: Allen's Wood Mouse (H. alleni) · Angolan Wood Mouse (H. carillus) · Stella Wood Mouse (H. stella) · H. vulcanorum
H. parvus group: Little Wood Mouse (H. parvus)

Mastomys
(Multimammate rats)

Awash Multimammate Mouse (M. awashensis) · Southern Multimammate Mouse (M. coucha) · Guinea Multimammate Mouse (M. erythroleucus) · Hubert's Multimammate Mouse (M. huberti) · Verheyen's Multimammate Mouse (M. kollmannspergeri) · Natal Multimammate Mouse (M. natalensis) · Dwarf Multimammate Mouse (M. pernanus) · Shortridge's Multimammate Mouse (M. shortridgei)

Myomyscus
(Multimammate rats)

Angolan Multimammate Mouse (M. angolensis) · Brockman's Rock Mouse (M. brockmani) · Verreaux's Mouse (M. verreauxii) · Yemeni Mouse (M. yemeni)

Praomys
(African
soft-furred rats)

P. coetzeei · Dalton's Mouse (P. daltoni) · De Graaff's Soft-furred Mouse (P. degraaffi) · Delectable Soft-furred Mouse (P. delectorum) · Deroo's Mouse (P. derooi) · Hartwig's Soft-furred Mouse (P. hartwigi) · Jackson's Soft-furred Mouse (P. jacksoni) · Lukolela Swamp Rat (P. lukolelae) · Least Soft-furred Mouse (P. minor) · Misonne's Soft-furred Mouse (P. misonnei) · Cameroon Soft-furred Mouse (P. morio) · Muton's Soft-furred Mouse (P. mutoni) · Gotel Mountain Soft-furred Mouse (P. obscurus) · Peter's Soft-furred Mouse (P. petteri) · Forest Soft-furred Mouse (P. rostratus) · Tullberg's Soft-furred Mouse (P. tullbergi) · Verschuren's Swamp Rat (P. verschureni)

Stenocephalemys
(Ethiopian
narrow-headed rats)

Ethiopian White-footed Mouse (S. albipes) · Ethiopian Narrow-headed Rat (S. albocaudata) · Gray-tailed Narrow-headed Rat (S. griseicauda) · Rupp's Mouse (S. ruppi)

Uromys Division

Melomys
(Banana rats)

Dusky Mosaic-tailed Rat (M. aerosus) · Paramelomys

P. naso · Lowland Mosaic-tailed Rat (P. platyops) · Mountain Mosaic-tailed Rat (P. rubex) · P. steini

Protochromys

Red-bellied Mosaic-tailed Rat (P. fellowsi)

Solomys
(Naked-tailed rats)

Poncelet's Giant Rat (S. ponceleti) · Florida Naked-tailed Rat (S. salamonis) · Bougainville Naked-tailed Rat (S. salebrosus) · Isabel Naked-tailed Rat (S. sapientis) · Uromys
(Giant naked-tailed rats)

Giant Naked-tailed Rat (U. anak) · Biak Giant Rat (U. boeadii) · Giant White-tailed Rat (U. caudimaculatus) · Emma's Giant Rat (U. emmae) · Masked White-tailed Rat (U. hadrourus) · Bismarck Giant Rat (U. neobritanicus) · King Rat (U. rex) · Great Key Island Giant Rat (U. siebersi)

Xeromys Division

Leptomys

L. arfakensis · Long-footed Water Rat (L. elegans) · Ernst Mayr's Water Rat (L. ernstmayri) · L. paulus · Fly River Water Rat (L. signatus)

Pseudohydromys
(New Guinea
false water rats)

Xeromys

False Water Rat (X. myoides)

Otomys division

Myotomys
(African karoo rats)
Sloggett's Vlei Rat (M. sloggetti) · Bush Vlei Rat (M. unisulcatus)

Otomys
(Vlei rats)
Angolan Vlei Rat (O. anchietae) · Angoni Vlei Rat (O. angoniensis) · Barbour's Vlei Rat (O. barbouri) · Burton's Vlei Rat (O. burtoni) · Cuanza Vlei Rat (O. cuanzensis) · Ruwenzori Vlei Rat (O. dartmouthi) · Dent's Vlei Rat (O. denti) · Dollman's Vlei Rat (O. dollmani) · Southern African Vlei Rat (O. irroratus) · Mount Elgon Vlei Rat (O. jacksoni) · Tanzanian Vlei Rat (O. lacustris) · Laminate Vlei Rat (O. laminatus) · Large Vlei Rat (O. maximus) · Western Vlei Rat (O. occidentalis) · Afroalpine Vlei Rat (O. orestes) · Saunder's Vlei Rat (O. saundersiae) · Tropical Vlei Rat (O. tropicalis) · Typical Vlei Rat (O. typus) · Uzungwe Vlei Rat (O. uzungwensis)

Parotomys
(Whistling rats)
Brants's Whistling Rat (P. brantsii) · Littledale's Whistling Rat (P. littledalei)

Others

Mirzamys
Musseromys

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Melomys Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent

Melomys cervinipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Subfamily:	Murinae
Genus:	Melomys Thomas, 1922
Species
Melomys aerosus Melomys arcium Melomys bannisteri Melomys bougainville Melomys burtoni Melomys capensis Melomys caurinus Melomys cervinipes Melomys cooperae Melomys dollmani Melomys fraterculus Melomys frigicola Melomys fulgens Melomys howi Melomys leucogaster Melomys lutillus Melomys matambuai Melomys obiensis Melomys paveli Melomys rubicola Melomys rufescens Melomys spechti Melomys talaudium

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