House mouse |
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Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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Animalia |
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Chordata |
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Mammalia |
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Rodentia |
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Muridae |
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Murinae |
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Mus |
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Mus |
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M. musculus |
Binomial name |
Mus musculus
Linnaeus, 1758 |
Subspecies |
- Mus musculus bactrianus
- Mus musculus castaneus
- Mus musculus domesticus
- Mus musculus gentilulus
- Mus musculus musculus
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House mouse range |
The house mouse (Mus musculus) is a small mammal of the order Rodentia, characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, and a long naked or almost hairless tail. It is one of the most numerous species of the genus Mus. Although a wild animal, the house mouse mainly lives in association with humans.
The house mouse has been domesticated as the pet or fancy mouse, and as the laboratory mouse, which is one of the most important model organisms in biology and medicine. It is by far the animal most commonly genetically altered for scientific research.[2]
Contents
- 1 Characteristics
- 2 Taxonomy and subspecies
- 3 Behavior
- 4 Senses and communication
- 4.1 Vision
- 4.2 Olfaction
- 4.3 Touch
- 5 Life cycle and reproduction
- 6 Life expectancy
- 7 Mice and humans
- 7.1 Invasive species
- 7.2 Diseases (zoonoses) and allergies
- 8 Laboratory mice
- 8.1 Legislation of use in science
- 8.1.1 United Kingdom
- 8.1.2 United States
- 8.2 Genome
- 8.3 T-haplotype
- 8.4 Mutant and transgenic strains
- 8.5 Injection procedures
- 8.6 Anesthesia
- 8.7 Euthanasia
- 8.8 Pathogen susceptibility
- 9 References
- 10 Further reading
- 11 External links
Characteristics[edit]
House mice have an adult body length (nose to base of tail) of 7.5–10 cm (3.0–3.9 in) and a tail length of 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in). The weight is typically 10–25 g (0.4–0.9 oz). They vary in color from white to grey to light brown to black. They have short hair and a light belly. The ears and tail have little hair. The hind feet are short compared to Apodemus mice, only 15–19 mm (0.59–0.75 in) long; the normal gait is a run with a stride of about 4.5 cm (1.8 in), though they can jump vertically up to 45 cm (18 in).[3] The voice is a high-pitched squeak.[4][5] House mice thrive under a variety of conditions: they are found in and around homes and commercial structures, as well as in open fields and agricultural lands.
Young males and females are not easily distinguished: females have a significantly smaller distance between their anus and genital opening. Females have five pairs of mammary glands and nipples; males have no nipples.[6] When sexually mature, the most striking and obvious difference is the presence of testicles on the males. These are large compared to the rest of the body and can be retracted into the body. In addition to the regular pea-size thymus organ in the chest, house mice have a second functional pinhead-size thymus organ in the neck next to the trachea.[7]
Taxonomy and subspecies[edit]
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Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares, pikas)
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Scandentia (treeshrews)
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Dermoptera (flying lemurs)
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Mice are mammals of the Glires clade, which means they are amongst the closest relatives of humans other than lagomorphs, treeshrews, flying lemurs and other primates.
The three widely accepted subspecies are increasingly treated as distinct species:[8][9]
- Mus musculus castaneus (southern and southeastern Asia)
- Mus musculus domesticus (western Europe, southwestern Asia, Americas, Africa, and Oceania)
- Mus musculus musculus (eastern Europe and northern Asia)
Two additional subspecies have been recognized more recently:[9]
- Mus musculus bactrianus (central Asia)
- Mus musculus gentilulus (Arabian Peninsula; Madagascar)[10]
Many more names have been given to house mice, but are now regarded as synonyms of other subspecies. Some populations are hybrids of different subspecies, including the Japanese house mouse (M. m. molossinus).[9][11]
Behavior[edit]
House mice usually run, walk, or stand on all fours, but when eating, fighting, or orienting themselves, they rear up on their hind legs with additional support from the tail. When they run, the horizontal tail serves for balance; the end stands up vertically, unless the mouse is frightened. Mice are good jumpers, climbers, and swimmers.
Mice are mostly crepuscular or nocturnal; they are averse to bright lights. The average sleep time of a captive house mouse is reported to be 12.5 hours per day.[12] They live in a wide variety of hidden places near food sources, and construct nests from various soft materials. Mice are territorial, and one dominant male usually lives together with several females and young. Dominant males respect each other's territory and normally enter another's territory only if it is vacant. If two or more males are housed together in a cage, they will often become aggressive unless they have been raised together from birth.
House mice primarily feed on plant matter, but are omnivorous. They will eat their own faeces to acquire nutrients produced by bacteria in their intestines. House mice, like most other rodents, do not vomit.
Mice are generally afraid of rats which often kill and eat mice, a behavior known as muricide. Despite this, free-living populations of rats and mice do exist together in forest areas in New Zealand, North America and elsewhere. House mice are generally poor competitors and in most areas cannot survive away from human settlements in areas where other small mammals, such as wood mice, are present.[13] However, in some areas (such as Australia), mice are able to coexist with other small rodent species.[14]
Social behavior[edit]
The social behavior of the house mouse is not rigidly fixed into species-specific patterns but is instead adaptable to the environmental conditions, such as the availability of food and space.[15][16] This adaptability allows house mice to inhabit diverse areas ranging from sandy dunes to apartment buildings.[15]
House mice have two forms of social behavior, the expression of which depends on the environmental context. House mice in buildings and other urbanized areas with close proximity to humans are known as commensal.[15] Commensal mice populations often have an excessive food source resulting in high population densities and small home ranges. This causes a switch from territorial behavior to a hierarchy of individuals.[15][17] When populations have an excess of food, there is less female-female aggression, which usually occurs to gain access to food or to prevent infanticide.[15] Male-male aggression occurs in commensal populations, mainly to defend female mates and protect a small territory.[15][16] The high level of male-male aggression, with a low female-female aggression level is common in polygamous populations.[18] The social unit of commensal house mouse populations generally consists of one male and two or more females, usually related.[18][19] These groups breed cooperatively, with the females communally nursing. This cooperative breeding and rearing by related females helps increase reproductive success. When no related females are present, breeding groups can form from non-related females.[19]
In open areas such as shrubs and fields, the house mouse population is known as noncommensal. These populations are often limited by water or food supply and have large territories.[16] Female-female aggression in the noncommensal house mouse populations is much higher, reaching a level generally attributed to free-ranging species. Male aggression is also higher in noncommensal populations. In commensal populations, males come into contact with other males quite frequently due to high population densities and aggression must be mediated or the risk of injury becomes too great.[15]
Both commensal and noncommensal house mouse males aggressively defend their territory and act to exclude all intruders. Males mark their territory by scent marking with urine. In marked territories, intruders showed significantly lower aggression than the territory residents.[16] House mice show a male-biased dispersal; males generally leave their birth sites and migrate to form new territories whereas females generally stay and are opportunistic breeders rather than seasonal.[20]
Senses and communication[edit]
Vision[edit]
As primarily nocturnal animals, house mice have little or no color vision. Their visual apparatus is basically similar to humans, but differs markedly in at least one respect. The ventral area of the mouse retina has a much greater density of ultraviolet-sensitive cones than other areas of the retina, although the biological significance of this structure is unknown.[21][22][23]
Olfaction[edit]
House mice also rely on pheromones for social communication, some of which are produced by the preputial glands of both sexes. The tear fluid and urine of male mice also contains pheromones, such as major urinary proteins.[24][25] Mice detect pheromones mainly with the vomeronasal organ (Jacobson's organ), located at the bottom of the nose.
The urine of house mice, especially that of males, has a characteristic strong odor. At least 10 different compounds, such as alkanes, alcohols, etc., are detectable in the urine. Among them, five compounds are specific to males, namely 3-cyclohexene-1-methanol, aminotriazole (3-amino-s-triazole), 4-ethyl phenol, 3-ethyl-2,7-dimethyl octane and 1-iodoundecane.[26]
Odours from adult males or from pregnant or lactating females can speed up or retard sexual maturation in juvenile females and synchronise reproductive cycles in mature females (i.e. the Whitten effect). Odours of unfamiliar male mice may terminate pregnancies, i.e. the Bruce effect.
Touch[edit]
Mice can sense surfaces and air movements with their whiskers which are also used during thigmotaxis. If mice are blind from birth, super-normal growth of the vibrissae occurs presumably as a compensatory response,[27] or if the vibrissae are absent, the use of vision is intensified.[28]
Life cycle and reproduction[edit]
A two-week-old mouse, just about to open its eyes
Female house mice have an estrous cycle about four to six days long, with estrus itself lasting less than a day. If several females are held together under crowded conditions, they will often not have an estrus at all. If they are then exposed to male urine, they will come into estrus after 72 hours.
Male house mice court females by emitting characteristic ultrasonic calls in the 30 kHz–110 kHz range. The calls are most frequent during courtship when the male is sniffing and following the female; however, the calls continue after mating has begun, at which time the calls are coincident with mounting behaviour. Males can be induced to emit these calls by female pheromones. The vocalizations appear to differ between individuals and have been compared to bird songs because of their complexity.[29] While females have the capability to produce ultrasonic calls, they typically do not do so during mating behaviour.
Following copulation, female mice will normally develop a copulation plug which prevents further copulation. This plug stays in place for some 24 hours. The gestation period is about 19–21 days, and they give birth to a litter of 3–14 young (average six to eight). One female can have 5 to 10 litters per year, so the mice population can increase very quickly. Breeding occurs throughout the year. (However, animals living in the wild do not reproduce in the colder months, even though they do not hibernate.) The newborn are blind and without fur. Fur begins growing about three days after birth, and the eyes open one to two weeks after birth. Females reach sexual maturity at about six weeks of age and males at about eight weeks, but both can copulate as early as five weeks.
Life expectancy[edit]
House mice usually live under a year in the wild, due to a high level of predation and exposure to harsh environments. In protected environments, however, they often live two to three years. The Methuselah Mouse Prize is a competition to breed or engineer extremely long-lived laboratory mice. As of 2005[update], the record holder was a genetically engineered mouse that lived for 1,819 days (4 years, 358 days).[30] Another record holder that was kept in an enriched environment but did not receive any genetic, pharmacological, or dietary treatment lived for 1,551 days (4 years, 90 days).[31][32]
Mice and humans[edit]
See also: Fancy mouse
House mice usually live in proximity to humans, in or around houses or fields. Originally native to Asia (probably northern India),[33] they spread to the Mediterranean Basin about 8000 BC, only spreading into the rest of Europe around 1000 BC.[34] This time lag is thought to be because the mice require agrarian human settlements above a certain size.[34] They have since been spread to all parts of the globe by humans.
Many studies have been done on mouse phylogenies to reconstruct early human movements. For example, one study suggests the possibility of a previously unsuspected early link between Northern Europe and Madeira on the basis of the origin of Madeiran mice.[35]
An individually ventilated and sealed cage for laboratory mice
House mice can transmit diseases, and can damage food and food packaging. Some of the diseases the house mouse carries can be deadly: for example, leptospirosis, murine typhus, rickettsialpox, tularemia, lymphocytic choriomeningitis [36] and potentially bubonic plague.[citation needed] House mice can also cause substantial damage when feeding on grain. House mice were thought to be the primary reason for the taming of the domestic cat. Various mousetraps have been developed to catch mice.
The first written reference to mice kept as pets occurs in the Erya, the oldest extant Chinese dictionary, from a mention in an 1100 BC version.[37] Human domestication led to numerous strains of "fancy" or hobby mice with a variety of colours and a docile temperament.[38] Domestic varieties of the house mouse, called "feeder" mice, are also used as food for some carnivorous pet reptiles, birds, arthropods, and fish. Mice bred for this purpose are genetically identical to other domestic mice, and they can be kept as pets themselves.[38]
Invasive species[edit]
Mice have become an invasive species on islands to where they have spread during the period of European exploration and colonisation.
New Zealand had no land mammals prior to human occupation and the house mouse is one of many species that have been introduced. Mice are responsible for the reduction in native bird species since they eat some of the same foods as birds. They are also known to kill lizards and have a huge effect on native insects.[39]
Gough Island in the South Atlantic is used by 20 species of seabird for breeding, including almost all of the world's Tristan albatross (Diomedea dabbenena) and Atlantic petrel (Pterodroma incerta). Until house mice arrived on the island in the 19th century with seamen, the birds did not have any mammalian predators. The mice have since grown unusually large and have learned to attack albatross chicks, which can be nearly 1 m tall, but are largely immobile, by working in groups and gnawing on them until they bleed to death.[40]
Diseases (zoonoses) and allergies[edit]
In 1999, a study completed at the Dickson Centre for Sleep Studies discovered that the protein FgFF, present in mouse droppings and urine, was indicated as a possible cause of late onset asthma, hairloss and rhinobalonitis ("balloon nose") in insomnia sufferers. The findings suggested that mice and their offspring were present on the pillows and bedsheets of the subjects of the study.[citation needed]
Laboratory mice[edit]
Laboratory mouse (note the ear tag)
Mice are the most commonly used mammalian research model with hundreds of established inbred, outbred, and transgenic strains. Mice are mammals of the Glires clade, which means they are amongst humanity's closest relatives other than treeshrews, flying lemurs and primates. This close relationship, the associated high homology with humans, their ease of maintenance and handling, and the fact that they reproduce quickly, makes mice common experimental animals in biology and psychology. The mouse genome has been sequenced, and many mouse genes have human homologues. In addition to being small, relatively inexpensive, and easily maintained, several generations of mice can be observed in a relatively short period of time as mice reproduce very quickly.[41]
Most laboratory mice are hybrids of different subspecies, most commonly of Mus musculus domesticus and Mus musculus musculus. Laboratory mice can have a variety of coat colours, including agouti, black and albino. Many (but not all) laboratory strains are inbred, so as to make them genetically almost identical. The different strains are identified with specific letter-digit combinations; for example C57BL/6 and BALB/c. The first such inbred strains were produced by Clarence Cook Little in 1909. Little was influential in promoting the mouse as a laboratory organism.[42]
Legislation of use in science[edit]
United Kingdom[edit]
In the UK, as with all other vertebrates and some invertebrates, any scientific procedure which is likely to cause lasting distress or suffering is regulated by the Home Office under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. Detailed data on the use of mice and other species in research in the UK are published each year.[43] In the UK in 2012, there was a total of 3,058,800 regulated procedures on mice in research, which represents 74% of all scientific procedures on animals in the UK in that year.
United States[edit]
In the United States, laboratory mice are not regulated under the Animal Welfare Act administered by the USDA APHIS. However, the Public Health Service Act (PHS) as administered by the National Institutes of Health does offer a standard for their care and use. Compliance with PHS is required to receive federal funding. PHS policy is administered by the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare. Many academic research institutes seek accreditation voluntarily, often through Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, which maintains the standards of care found within The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and the PHS policy. This accreditation is voluntary, not a prerequisite, for federal funding.[44]
Genome[edit]
Mice genetically engineered to express green fluorescent protein under UV light.
Sequencing of the mouse genome was completed in late 2002. The haploid genome is about three billion base pairs long (3000 Mb distributed over 20 chromosomes), therefore equal to the size of the human genome.[45][dead link] Estimating the number of genes contained in the mouse genome is difficult, in part because the definition of a gene is still being debated and extended. The current count of primary coding genes is 23,139.[46] For comparison, humans have an estimated 20,774.[47]
T-haplotype[edit]
The t-haplotype is a selfish element that works to disable the function of the wild house mouse, Mus musculus, sperm to ensure the fertilization of the female egg with their own sperm. This gamete killer designed and structured to suppress recombination of genes, is a single unit, of linked genes, located near the centromere of chromosome 17 and is approximately 30-40 Mb long.[48] One part of the t-haplotype is the responder-insensitive allele Tcr. Tcr gives protection from the distorting drivers, since it shows haploid-specific expression, which means only sperm that carry the haploid are rescued from being killed.[49] While advantageous, the frequency of this selfish element is reported as low.[50]
The low t–haplotype frequency in the wild house mouse population is a paradox. Although +/t male mice carry equal ratios of both gamete types (+ and t) and the wild type chromosome becomes functionally inactivated as well as 90% of the offspring inherit the t chromosomes, wild house mouse populations have remained polymorphic.[50] It would be hypothesized that the high transmission distortion ratio of t-haplotypes would become fixed in a natural population, if 90% of the offspring were inheriting the t chromosome, but due to several factors, this is not the case. Investigations of different subspecies mice populations in different locations have found there were low t frequencies in enclosure populations, as well as in different subspecies. Huang et al. (2001),[51] in Taiwan, observed a low frequency in the subspecies, Mus castaneus, which has also been observed by both Ardlie and Silver (1998)[50] and Carroll et al. (2004).[52] Based on these findings, the general mechanisms of these low t frequencies in mouse populations are similar across subspecies and geographical location, making the unraveling of this paradox beneficial to not only the Mus domesticus species of mouse, but also for other species of mouse, such as Mus castaneus.
Explanations for the low frequency of t-haplotypes include factors such as population size, inbreeding, heterozygosity, and polyandry in the wild house mouse population.
Mutant and transgenic strains[edit]
A knockout mouse (left), a model of obesity, compared with a normal mouse
Various mutant strains of mice have been created by a number of methods. A small selection from the many available strains:
- Mice resulting from ordinary breeding
- NOD mice, which develop diabetes mellitus type 1.
- MRL mice with unusual regenerative capacities[53]
- "Waltzing" mice, which walk in a circular pattern due to a mutation adversely affecting their inner ears
- Immunodeficient nude mice, lacking hair and a thymus: The mice do not produce T lymphocytes, therefore do not mount cellular immune responses. They are used for research in immunology and transplantation.
- Severe combined immunodeficient, with an almost completely defective immune system
- Transgenic mice, with foreign genes inserted into their genome
- Abnormally large mice, with an inserted rat growth hormone gene
- Oncomice, with an activated oncogene, so as to significantly increase the incidence of cancer
- Doogie mice, with enhanced NMDA receptor function, resulting in improved memory and learning
- Knockout mice, where a specific gene was made inoperable by a technique known as gene knockout: The purpose is to study the function of the gene's product or to simulate a human disease.
- Fat mice, prone to obesity due to a carboxypeptidase E deficiency
- Strong muscular mice, with a disabled myostatin gene, nicknamed "mighty mice."
Since 1998, it has been possible to clone mice from cells derived from adult animals.
Injection procedures[edit]
Routes of administration of injections in laboratory mice are mainly subcutaneous, intraperitoneal and intravenous. Intramuscular administration is not recommended due to small muscle mass.[54] Intracerebral administration is also possible. Each procedure has recommended injection site, approximate needle gauge and recommended maximal injected volume at a single time at one site, as given in table:
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Recommended site[54] |
Needle gauge[54] |
Maximal volume[55] |
subcutaneous |
dorsum, between scapula |
25-26 ga |
2-3 ml |
intraperitoneal |
left lower quadrant |
25-27 ga |
2-3 ml |
intravenous |
lateral tail vein |
27-28 ga |
0.2 ml |
intramuscular |
hindlimb, caudal thigh |
26-27 ga |
0.05 ml |
intracerebral |
cranium |
27 ga |
To facilitate intravenous injection into the tail, laboratory mice can be carefully warmed under heat lamps to vasodilate the vessels.[54]
Anesthesia[edit]
A common regimen for general anesthesia for the house mouse is ketamine (in the dose of 100 mg per kg body weight) plus xylazine (in the dose of 5–10 mg per kg), injected by the intraperitoneal route.[56] It has a duration of effect of about 30 minutes.[56]
Euthanasia[edit]
Approved procedures for euthanasia of laboratory mice include compressed CO2 gas, injectable barbiturate anesthetics, inhalable anesthetics, such as Halothane, and physical methods, such as cervical dislocation and decapitation.[57] In 2013, the American Veterinary Medical Association issued new guidelines for CO2 induction, stating that a flow rate of 10% to 30% volume/min is optimal for euthanasing laboratory mice.[58]
Pathogen susceptibility[edit]
A recent study detected a murine astrovirus in laboratory mice held at more than half of the US and Japanese institutes investigated.[59] Murine astrovirus was found in nine mice strains, including NSG, NOD-SCID, NSG-3GS, C57BL6-Timp-3-/-, uPA-NOG, B6J, ICR, Bash2, and BALB/C, with various degree of prevalence. The pathogenicity of the murine astrovirus was not known.
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Further reading[edit]
- Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0.
- Nyby J. (2001). "Ch. 1 Auditory communication in adults". In Willott, James F. Handbook of Mouse Auditory Research: From Behavior to Molecular Biology. Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 3–18.
External links[edit]
Taxonomy
- House mouse at the Encyclopedia of Life
- http://www.findmice.org/
Genetics
- House mouse at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- Ensembl Mus musculus genome browser, from the Ensembl Project
- Vega Mus musculus genome browser, includes NOD mouse sequence and annotation
Media
- Pictures, movies and applets showing the anatomy of Mus musculus, from www.digimorph.org
- Michael Purdy: "Researchers add mice to list of creatures that sing in the presence of mates"-Study of male mouse "song" with mouse song recording (MP3), by Washington University Medical School
- Arkive Photographs.Short text.
- High-Resolution Brain Maps and Brain Atlases of Mus musculus
Further reading
- Biology of the Mouse, from the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association
- Nature Mouse Special 2002
- Biology of Laboratory Rodents by David G. Besselsen
- Comprehensive house mouse information, including pictures, by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
- 'Fancy Mice', includes much behavioral and physiological information
- Some information on muricide
- Vocalizations during copulation
Major model organisms in genetics
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- Lambda phage
- E. coli
- Chlamydomonas
- Tetrahymena
- Budding yeast
- Fission yeast
- Neurospora
- Maize
- Arabidopsis
- Medicago truncatula
- C. elegans
- Drosophila
- Xenopus
- Zebrafish
- Rat
- Mouse
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae
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Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Superorder: Euarchontoglires · Order: Rodentia · Family: Muridae
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Aethomys, Apodemus, Arvicanthis, Chrotomys divisions |
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Aethomys
Division |
Aethomys
(Bush rats)
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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)
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Apodemus
Division |
Apodemus
(Old world
field mice)
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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)
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Tokudaia
(Ryukyu spiny rats)
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Muennink's spiny rat (T. muenninki) · Ryukyu spiny rat (T. osimensis) · Tokunoshima spiny rat (T. tokunoshimensis)
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Arvicanthis
Division |
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Arvicanthis
(Unstriped
grass mice)
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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)
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Desmomys
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Harrington's rat (D. harringtoni) · Yalden's rat (D. yaldeni)
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Lemniscomys
(Striped
grass mice)
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Barbary striped grass mouse (L. barbarus) · Bellier's striped grass mouse (L. bellieri) · Griselda's striped grass mouse (L. griselda) · Hoogstraal'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)
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Mylomys
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African groove-toothed rat (M. dybowskii) · Mylomys rex
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Pelomys
(Groove-toothed
creek rats)
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Bell groove-toothed swamp sat (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)
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Rhabdomys
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R. dilectus · four-striped grass mouse (R. pumilio)
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Chrotomys
Division |
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Apomys
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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)
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Archboldomys
(Mount Isarog
shrew rats)
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Mount Isarog shrew mouse (A. luzonensis) · Sierra Madre shrew mouse (A. musseri) · Cordillera shrew mouse (A. kalinga)
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Chrotomys
(Luzon
striped rats)
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Luzon striped rat (C. whiteheadi) · Mindoro striped rat (C. mindorensis) · Isarog striped shrew-rat (C. gonzalesi) · blazed Luzon shrew rat (C. silaceus) · Sibuyan striped shrew rat (C. sibuyanensis)
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Rhynchomys
(Shrewlike rats)
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Banahao shrew rat (R. banahao) · Isarog shrew rat (R. isarogensis) · Mount Data shrew rat (R. soricoides) · Tapulao shrew rat (R. tapulao)
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Colomys, Crunomys, Dacnomys, Dasymys, Dasymys, Echiothrix, Golunda divisions |
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Colomys
Division |
Colomys
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African wading rat (C. goslingi)
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Nilopegamys
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Ethiopian amphibious rat (N. plumbeus)
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Zelotomys
(Stink mice)
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Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse (Z. hildegardeae) · Woosnam's broad-headed mouse (Z. woosnami)
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Crunomys
Division |
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Crunomys
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Celebes shrew rat (C. celebensis) · Northern Luzon shrew rat (C. fallax) · Mindanao shrew rat (C. melanius) · Katanglad shrew mouse (C. suncoides)
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Sommeromys
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Sommer's Sulawesi rat (S. macrorhinos)
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Dacnomys
Division |
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Anonymomys
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Mindoro climbing rat (A. mindorensis)
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Chiromyscus
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Fea's tree rat (C. chiropus)
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Dacnomys
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Millard's rat (D. millardi)
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Leopoldamys
(Long-tailed
giant rats)
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Sundaic mountain long-tailed giant rat (L. ciliatus) · Edwards's long-tailed giant rat (L. edwardsi) · Millet's long-tailed giant rat (L. milleti) · Neill's long-tailed giant rat (L. neilli) · Long-tailed giant rat (L. sabanus) · Mentawai long-tailed giant rat (L. siporanus)
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Niviventer
(White-bellied rats)
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Anderson's white-bellied rat (N. andersoni) · Brahma white-bellied rat (N. brahma) · Cameron Highlands white-bellied rat (N. cameroni) · Chinese white-bellied rat (N. confucianus) · Coxing's white-bellied rat (N. coninga) · Dark-tailed tree rat (N. cremoriventer) · Oldfield white-bellied rat (N. culturatus) · Smoke-bellied rat (N. eha) · Large white-bellied rat (N. excelsior) · Montane Sumatran white-bellied rat (N. fraternus) · Chestnut white-bellied rat (N. fulvescens) · Limestone rat (N. hinpoon) · Lang Bian white-bellied rat (N. langbianis) · Narrow-tailed white-bellied rat (N. lepturus) · Hainan white-bellied rat (N. lotipes) · White-bellied rat (N. niviventer) · Long-tailed mountain rat (N. rapit) · Tenasserim white-bellied rat (N. tenaster)
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Saxatilomys
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Paulina;s limestone rat (S. paulinae)
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Srilankamys
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Ohiya rat (S. ohiensis)
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Tonkinomys
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Daovantien's limestone rat (T. daovantieni)
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Dasymys
Division |
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Dasymys
(Shaggy
swamp rats)
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Glover Allen's shaggy rat (D. alleni) · Crawford-Cabral's shaggy rat (D. cabrali) · Fox's shaggy rat (D. foxi) · African marsh rat (D. incomtus) · Montane shaggy rat (D. montanus) · Angolan marsh rat (D. nudipes) · Robert's shaggy rat (D. robertsii) · West African shaggy rat (D. rufulus) · Rwandan shaggy rat (D. rwandae) · D. shortridgei · Tanzanian shaggy rat (D. sua)
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Echiothrix
Division |
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Echiothrix
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Central Sulawesi spiny rat (E. centrosa) · Sulawesi spiny rat (E. leucura)
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Golunda
Division |
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Golunda
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Indian bush rat (G. ellioti)
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Hadromys, Hybomys, Hydromys, Lorentzimys, Malacomys, Maxomys divisions |
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Hadromys
Division |
Hadromys
(Manipur bush rat)
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Manipur bush rat (H. humei) · H. loujacobsi · Yunnan bush rat (H. yunnanensis)
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Hybomys
Division |
Dephomys
(Defua rats)
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Defua rat (D. defua) · Ivory Coast rat (D. eburneae)
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Hybomys
(Hump-nosed mice)
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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)
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Stochomys
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Target rat (S. longicaudatus)
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Hydromys
Division |
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Baiyankamys
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Mountain water rat (B. habbema) · Shaw Mayer's water rat (B. shawmayeri)
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Crossomys
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Earless water rat (C. moncktoni)
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Hydromys
(Water rats)
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Rakali (H. chrysogaster) · Western water rat (H. hussoni) · New Britain water rat (H. neobrittanicus) · Ziegler's water rat (H. ziegleri)
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Microhydromys
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Southern groove-toothed shrew nouse (M. argenteus) · Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse (M. richardsoni)
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Parahydromys
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New Guinea waterside rat (P. asper)
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Paraleptomys
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Northern water rat (P. rufilatus) · Short-haired water rat (P. wilhelmina)
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Lorentzimys
Division |
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Lorentzimys
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New Guinean jumping mouse (L. nouhuysi)
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Malacomys
Division |
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Malacomys
(Big-eared swamp rats)
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Cansdale's swamp rat (M. cansdalei) · Edward's swamp rat (M. edwardsi) · Big-eared swamp rat (M. longipes)
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Maxomys
Division |
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Maxomys
(Rajah rats)
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Mountain spiny rat (M. alticola) · Maxomys 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)
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Melasmothrix, Micromys, Millardia, Mus divisions |
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Melasmothrix
Division |
Melasmothrix
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Sulawesian shrew rat (M. naso)
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Tateomys
(Greater Sulawesian
shrew rats)
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Long-tailed shrew tat (T. macrocercus) · Tate's shrew rat (T. rhinogradoides)
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Micromys
Division |
Chiropodomys
(Pencil-tailed
tree mice)
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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)
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Haeromys
(Pygmy tree mice)
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Ranee mouse (H. margarettae) · Minahassa Ranee mouse (H. minahassae) · Lesser Ranee mouse (H. pusillus)
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Hapalomys
(Marmoset rats)
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Delacour's marmoset rat (H. delacouri) · Marmoset rat (H. longicaudatus)
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Micromys
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Micromys erythrotis · Eurasian harvest mouse (M. minutus)
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Vandeleuria
(Long-tailed
climbing mice)
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Nilgiri long-tailed tree mouse (V. nilagirica) · Nolthenius's long-tailed climbing mouse (V. nolthenii) · Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse (V. oleracea)
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Vernaya
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Red climbing mouse (V. fulva)
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Millardia
Division |
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Cremnomys
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Cutch rat (C. cutchicus) · Elvira rat (C. elvira)
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Diomys
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Crump's mouse (D. crumpi)
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Madromys
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Blanford's rat (M. blanfordi)
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Millardia
(Asian
soft-furred rats)
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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)
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Mus Division |
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Muriculus
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Ethiopian striped mouse (M. imberbis)
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Mus
(Typical mice)
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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) · Mus 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)
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Oenomys, Phloeomys, Pithecheir divisions |
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Oenomys
Division |
Grammomys
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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) · Eastern rainforest thicket rat (G. kuru) · Macmillan's thicket rat (G. macmillani) · Ethiopian thicket rat (G. minnae) · Shining thicket rat (G. poensis)
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Lamottemys
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Mount Oku rat (L. okuensis)
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Oenomys
(Rufous-nosed rats)
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Common rufous-nosed rat (O. hypoxanthus) · Ghana rufous-nosed rat (O. ornatus)
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Thallomys
(Acacia rats)
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Loring's rat (T. loringi) · Black-tailed tree rat (T. nigricauda) · Acacia rat (T. paedulcus) · Shortridge's rat (T. shortridgei)
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Thamnomys
(Thicket rats)
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Kemp's thicket rat (T. kempi) · Hatt's thicket rat (T. major) · Charming thicket rat (T. venustus)
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Phloeomys
Division |
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Batomys
(Luzon and Mindanao
forest rats)
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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)
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Carpomys
(Luzon rats)
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Short-footed Luzon tree rat (C. melanurus) · White-bellied Luzon tree rat (C. phaeurus)
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Crateromys
(Cloudrunners)
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Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat (C. australis) · Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat (C. schadenbergi) · Panay cloudrunner (C. heaneyi) · Ilin Island cloudrunner (C. paulus)
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Phloeomys
(Slender-tailed
cloud rats)
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Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat (P. cumingi) · Northern Luzon giant cloud rat (P. pallidus)
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Pithecheir
Division |
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Eropeplus
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Sulawesi soft-furred rat (E. canus)
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Lenomys
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Trefoil-toothed giant rat (L. meyeri)
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Lenothrix
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Gray tree rat (L. canus)
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Margaretamys
(Margareta's rats)
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Beccari's Margareta rat (M. beccarii) · Elegant Margareta rat (M. elegans) · Little Margareta rat (M. parvus)
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Pithecheir
(Monkey-footed rats)
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Red tree rat (P. melanurus) · Malayan tree rat (P. parvus)
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Pithecheirops
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Little-eared tree rat (P. otion)
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Pogonomys, Pseudomys divisions |
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Pogonomys
Division |
Abeomelomys
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Highland brush mouse (A. sevia)
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Anisomys
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Squirrel-toothed rat (A. imitator)
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Chiruromys
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Greater tree mouse (C. forbesi) · Lamia (C. lamia) · Lesser tree mouse (C. vates)
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Coccymys
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White-toothed brush mouse (C. albidens) · C. kirrhos · Rümmler's brush mouse (C. ruemmleri) · C. shawmayeri
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Hyomys
(White-eared rats)
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Western white-eared giant rat (H. dammermani) · Eastern white-eared giant rat (H. goliath)
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Macruromys
(New Guinean rats)
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Lesser small-toothed rat (M. elegans) · Eastern small-toothed rat (M. major)
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Mallomys
(Giant tree rats)
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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.) · Arfak woolly rat (M. sp. nov.) · Foja woolly rat (M. sp. nov.)
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Mammelomys
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Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat (M. lanosus) · Large mosaic-tailed rat (M. rattoides)
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Pogonomelomys
(Rummler's
mosaic tailed rats)
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Lowland brush mouse (P. bruijni) · Shaw Mayer's brush mouse (P. mayeri)
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Pogonomys
(Prehensile-tailed rats)
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Champion's tree mouse (P. championi) · D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago pogonomys (P. fergussoniensis) · Large tree mouse (P. loriae) · Chestnut tree mouse (P. macrourus) · Prehensile-tailed rat (P. mollipilosus) · Gray-bellied tree mouse (P. sylvestris)
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Xenuromys
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Mimic tree-rat (X. barbatus)
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Pseudomys
Division |
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Conilurus
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Brush-tailed rabbit rat (C. penicillatus)
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Leggadina
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Forrest's mouse (L. forresti) · Lakeland Downs mouse (L. lakedownensis)
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Leporillus
(Australian
stick-nest rats)
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Lesser stick-nest rat (L. apicalis) · Greater stick-nest rat (L. conditor)
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Mastacomys
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Broad-toothed mouse (M. fuscus)
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Mesembriomys
(Tree rats)
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Black-footed tree-rat (M. gouldii) · Golden-backed tree rat (M. macrurus)
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Notomys
(Australian
hopping mice)
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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)
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Pseudomys
(Australian native mice)
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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)
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Zyzomys
(Thick-tailed rats)
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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)
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Rattus division |
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Abditomys |
Luzon broad-toothed rat (A. latidens)
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Bandicota
(Bandicoot rats) |
Lesser bandicoot rat (B. bengalensis) · Greater bandicoot rat (B. indica) · Savile's bandicoot rat (B. savilei)
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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)
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Bullimus |
Bagobo rat (B. bagobus) · Camiguin forest rat (B. gamay) · Lagre Luzon forest rat (B. luzonicus)
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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)
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Diplothrix |
Ryukyu long-tailed giant rat (D. legatus)
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Kadarsanomys |
Sody's tree rat (K. sodyi)
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Komodomys |
Komodo rat (K. rintjanus)
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Limnomys |
Gray-bellied mountain rat (L. bryophilus) · Mindanao mountain rat (L. sibuanus)
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Nesokia |
Bunn's short-tailed bandicoot rat (N. bunnii) · Short-tailed bandicoot rat (N. indica)
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Nesoromys |
Ceram rat (N. ceramicus)
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Palawanomys |
Palawan soft-furred mountain rat (P. furvus)
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Papagomys |
Flores giant rat (P. armandvillei)
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Paruromys |
Sulawesi giant rat (P. dominator)
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Paulamys |
Flores long-nosed rat (P. naso)
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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 forest 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) · Aceh rat (R. blangorum) · Nonsense rat (R. burrus) · Hoffmann's rat (R. hoffmanni) · Koopman's rat (R. koopmani) · Lesser rice-field rat (R. losea) · Mentawai rat (R. lugens) · Mindoro black rat (R. mindorensis) · Little soft-furred rat (R. mollicomulus) · Osgood's rat (R. osgoodi) · Palm rat (R. palmarum) · Black rat (R. rattus) · Sahyadris forest rat (R. satarae) · Simalur rat (R. simalurensis) · Tanezumi rat (R. tanezumi) · Tawi-tawi forest rat (R. tawitawiensis) · Malayan field rat (R. tiomanicus)
R. xanthurus group: Bonthain rat (R. bontanus) · Opossum rat (R. marmosurus) · Peleng rat (R. pelurus) · R. salocco · Yellow-tailed rat (R. xanthurus)
R. leucopus group: Arfak rat (R. arfakiensis) · Western New Guinea mountain rat (R. arrogans) · Sula rat (R. elaphinus) · Spiny Ceram rat (R. feliceus) · Giluwe rat (R. giluwensis) · Japen rat (R. jobiensis) · Cape York rat (R. leucopus) · Eastern rat (R. mordax) · Moss-forest rat (R. niobe) · New Guinean rat (R. novaeguineae) · Arianus's rat (R. omichlodes) · Pocock's highland rat (R. pococki) · Spiny rat (R. praetor) · Glacier rat (R. richardsoni) · Stein's rat (R. steini) · Van Deusen's rat (R. vandeuseni) · Slender rat (R. verecundus)
R. fuscipes group: Dusky rat ( R. collettia) · Bush rat ( R. fuscipes) · Australian swamp rat ( R. lutreolus) · Dusky field rat ( R. sordidus) · Pale field rat ( R. tunneyi) · Long-haired rat ( R. villosissimus)
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Sundamys
(Giant Sunda rats) |
Mountain giant Sunda rat (S. infraluteus) · Bartels's rat (S. maxi) · Müller's giant Sunda rat (S. muelleri)
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Taeromys |
Salokko rat (T. arcuatus) · Lovely-haired rat (T. callitrichus) · Celebes rat (T. celebensis) · Sulawesi montane rat (T. hamatus) · Small-eared rat (T. microbullatus) · Sulawesi forest rat (T. punicans) · Tondano rat (T. taerae)
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Tarsomys |
Long-footed rat (T. apoensis) · Spiny long-footed rat (T. echinatus)
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Tryphomys |
Luzon short-nosed rat (T. adustus)
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Stenocephalomys, Uromys, Xeromys divisions |
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Stenocephalomys
Division |
Heimyscus
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African smoky mouse (H. fumosus)
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Hylomyscus
(African wood mice)
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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) · Walter Verheyeni's mouse (H. walterverheyeni)
H. anselli group: Ansell's wood mouse (H. anselli) · Arc Mountain wood mouse (H. arcimontensis)
H. baeri group: Baer's wood mouse (H. baeri)
H. denniae group: Montane wood mouse (H. denniae) · H. endorobae · H. vulcanorum
H. parvus group: Little wood mouse ( H. parvus)
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Mastomys
(Multimammate rats)
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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)
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Myomyscus
(Multimammate rats)
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Angolan multimammate mouse (M. angolensis) · Brockman's rock mouse (M. brockmani) · Verreaux's mouse (M. verreauxii) · Yemeni mouse (M. yemeni)
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Praomys
(African
soft-furred rats)
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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)
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Stenocephalemys
(Ethiopian
narrow-headed rats)
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Ethiopian white-footed mouse (S. albipes) · Ethiopian narrow-headed Rat (S. albocaudata) · Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat (S. griseicauda) · Rupp's mouse (S. ruppi)
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Uromys Division |
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Melomys
(Banana rats)
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Dusky mosaic-tailed rat (M. aerosus) · Rossel Island mosaic-tailed rat (M. arcium) · Bannister's rat (M. bannisteri) · Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat (M. bougainville) · Grassland mosaic-tailed rat (M. burtoni) · Cape York mosaic-tailed rat (M. capensis) · Short-tailed mosaic-tailed rat (M. caurinus) · Fawn-footed melomys (M. cervinipes) · Yamdena Island mosaic-tailed rat (M. cooperae) · Dollman's mosaic-tailed rat (M. dollmani) · Manusela mosaic-tailed rat (M. fraterculus) · Snow Mountains Grassland mosaic-tailed rat (M. frigicola) · Seram Long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat (M. fulgens) · Riama Island mosaic-tailed rat (M. howi) · White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (M. leucogaster) · Papua Grassland mosaic-tailed rat (M. lutillus) · Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat (M. matambuai) · Obi mosaic-tailed rat (M. obiensis) · Pavel's Seram mosaic-tailed rat (M. paveli) · Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat (M. rubicola) · Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat (M. rufescens) · Buka Island mosaic-tailed rat (M. spechti) · Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat (M. talaudium)
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Paramelomys
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Gressit's mosaic-tailed rat (P. gressitti) · Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat (P. levipes) · Lorentz's mosaic-tailed rat (P. lorentzii) · Thomas's mosaic-tailed rat (P. mollis) · Moncton's mosaic-tailed rat (P. moncktoni) · P. naso · Lowland mosaic-tailed rat (P. platyops) · Mountain mosaic-tailed rat (P. rubex) · P. steini
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Protochromys
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Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (P. fellowsi)
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Solomys
(Naked-tailed rats)
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Poncelet's giant rat (S. ponceleti) · Florida naked-tailed rat (S. salamonis) · Bougainville naked-tailed rat (S. salebrosus) · Isabel naked-tailed rat (S. sapientis) · Buka Island naked-tailed rat (S. spriggsarum)
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Uromys
(Giant naked-tailed rats)
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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)
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Xeromys Division |
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Leptomys
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L. arfakensis · Long-footed Water Rat (L. elegans) · Ernst Mayr's water rat (L. ernstmayri) · L. paulus · Fly River water rat (L. signatus)
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Pseudohydromys
(New Guinea
false water rats)
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Bishop moss-mouse (P. berniceae) · Huon smalltoothed moss-mouse (P. carlae) · Laurie's moss-mouse (P. eleanorae) · One-toothed shrew-mouse (P. ellermani) · Mottled-tailed shrew mouse (P. fuscus) · German's one-toothed moss mouse (P. germani) · Eastern shrew mouse (P. murinus) · Musser's shrew mouse (P. musseri) · Western shrew mouse (P. occidentalis) · Woolley's moss-mouse (P. patriciae) · Southern small-toothed moss-mouse (P. pumehanae) · White-bellied moss-mouse (P. sandrae)
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Xeromys
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False Water Rat (X. myoides)
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Otomys division |
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Myotomys
(African karoo rats) |
Sloggett's vlei rat (M. sloggetti) · Bush vlei rat (M. unisulcatus)
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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)
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Parotomys
(Whistling rats) |
Brants's whistling rat (P. brantsii) · Littledale's whistling rat (P. littledalei)
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Others |
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Mirzamys |
Mirza's western moss rat (M. louiseae) · Mirza's eastern moss rat (M. norahae)
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Musseromys |
Banahaw tree mouse
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