- Beamys
Taxobox
name = Beamys
fossil_range = Recent
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Mammalia
ordo =Rodent ia
familia =Nesomyidae
subfamilia =Cricetomyinae
tribus =Cricetomyini
genus = "Beamys"
genus_authority = Thomas, 1909
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Beamys hindei "
"Beamys major ""Beamys" is a genus of
rodent in theNesomyidae family. It contains the following species:
*Lesser Hamster-rat ("Beamys hindei")
*Greater Hamster-rat ("Beamys major")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.
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