Hydromyini

Hydromyini
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent
Giant white-tailed rat (Uromys caudimaculatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Tribe: Hydromyini
Gray, 1825
Genera

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Synonyms

Chiropodomyini Pagès et al. 2015

Hydromyini is a very large, diverse tribe of muroid rodents in the subfamily Murinae. They are the dominant native rodents in Australasia and one of only two native rodent groups there, the other being the R. fuscipes group of the genus Rattus in the tribe Rattini.[1] They are also found in parts of Southeast Asia.

  1. ^ Prins, Herbert H. T.; Gordon, Iain J. (2014-01-23). Invasion Biology and Ecological Theory: Insights from a Continent in Transformation. Cambridge University Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-1-107-78297-6.