Parotomys

{{Short description|Genus of rodents}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Middle Pleistocene - Recent

| image = Brants's Whistling Rat-001.jpg

| image_caption = Brants's whistling rat (Parotomys brantsii)

| taxon = Parotomys

| authority = Thomas, 1918

| type_species = Euryotis brantsii

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

Parotomys brantsii

Parotomys littledalei

}}

Parotomys is a small genus of rodent in the family Muridae.{{MSW3 Muroidea | id = 13001909 | page = 1531}} 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)