Thicket rat

Taxobox
name = Thicket rats
fossil_range = Late Pleistocene to Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Murinae
genus = "Thamnomys"
genus_authority = Thomas, 1907
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Thamnomys kempi"
"Thamnomys major"
"Thamnomys venustus"

The thicket rats, genus"Thamnomys", are a group of Old World rats from East Central Africa.

pecies

*Genus "Thamnomys"
**Kemp's Thicket Rat - "Thamnomys kempi" Dollman, 1911
**Hatt's Thicket Rat - "Thamnomys major" Hatt, 1934
**Charming Thicket Rat - "Thamnomys venustus" Thomas, 1907

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.