| Parotomys Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Recent
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| Brants's whistling rat (Parotomys brantsii) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Otomyini |
| Genus: | Parotomys Thomas, 1918 |
| Type species | |
| Euryotis brantsii | |
| Species | |
Parotomys is a small genus of rodent in the family Muridae.[1] Member species are found in the African countries of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. It contains the following two species:
- Brants's whistling rat (Parotomys brantsii)
- Littledale's whistling rat (Parotomys littledalei)
- ^ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.