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Dasymys
Temporal range: Late Pliocene to RecentScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Subfamily: Murinae Genus: Dasymys
Peters, 1875Species Dasymys alleni
Dasymys cabrali
Dasymys foxi
Dasymys incomtus
Dasymys montanus
Dasymys nudipes
Dasymys robertsii
Dasymys rufulus
Dasymys rwandae
Dasymys shortridgei
Dasymys suaDasymys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae. It contains the following species:
- Glover Allen's Shaggy Rat (Dasymys alleni)
- Crawford-Cabral's Shaggy Rat (Dasymys cabrali)
- Fox's Shaggy Rat (Dasymys foxi)
- African Marsh Rat (Dasymys incomtus)
- Montane Shaggy Rat (Dasymys montanus)
- Angolan Marsh Rat (Dasymys nudipes)
- Robert's Shaggy Rat, Dasymys robertsii
- West African Shaggy Rat (Dasymys rufulus)
- Rwandan Shaggy Rat (Dasymys rwandae)
- Dasymys shortridgei
- Tanzanian Shaggy Rat (Dasymys sua)
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.