Brachyuromys

Taxobox
name = "Brachyuromys"
fossil_range = Recent (and controversial Late Miocene)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Nesomyidae
subfamilia = Nesomyinae
genus = "Brachyuromys"
genus_authority = Major, 1896
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Brachyuromys betsileoensis"
"Brachyuromys ramirohitra"

"Brachyuromys" is a genus of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It contains the following species:
* Betsileo Short-tailed Rat ("Brachyuromys betsileoensis")
* Gregarious Short-tailed Rat ("Brachyuromys ramirohitra")

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.