White-eared giant rat

White-eared giant rat
Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Hydromyini
Genus: Hyomys
Thomas, 1904
Type species
Hyomys meeki[1]
Species

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The white-eared giant rats, genus Hyomys, are a group of Old World rats from New Guinea.

  1. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.