Solomys
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Genus of rodents
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Subfamily: | Murinae |
Tribe: | Hydromyini |
Genus: | Solomys Thomas, 1922 |
Type species | |
Uromys sapientis[1] | |
Species | |
Solomys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae. These large rats, which are all seriously threatened (one already extinct), are native to the Solomon Islands.
It contains the following species:
- Poncelet's giant rat (Solomys ponceleti)
- Florida naked-tailed rat (Solomys salamonis)
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat (Solomys salebrosus)
- Isabel naked-tailed rat (Solomys sapientis)
- Buka Island naked-tailed rat (Solomys spriggsarum) – extinct, known only from subfossil remains.
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
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