Uromys
{{Short description|Genus of rodents}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Uromys
| fossil_range = Early Pleistocene to Recent
| image = Giant White-tailed Rat.jpg
| image_caption = Uromys caudimaculatus
| taxon = Uromys
| authority = Peters, 1867
| type_species = Mus macropus{{MSW3|id=13001853}}
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 11, see below
}}
Uromys is a genus of rodents found in Melanesia and Australia. They are known as the giant naked-tailed rats. There are eleven species in the genus, with the most recent described in 2017.
Species
- Giant naked-tailed rat, Uromys anak Thomas, 1907
- Biak giant rat, Uromys boeadii Groves & Flannery, 1994
- Giant white-tailed rat, Uromys caudimaculatus Krefft, 1867
- Emma's giant rat, Uromys emmae Groves & Flannery, 1994
- Masked white-tailed rat, Uromys hadrourus Winter, 1983
- Emperor rat, Uromys imperator Thomas, 1888
- Bismarck giant rat, Uromys neobritannicus Tate & Archbold, 1935
- Guadalcanal rat, Uromys porculus Thomas, 1904
- King rat, Uromys rex Thomas, 1888
- Great Key Island giant rat, Uromys siebersi Thomas, 1923
- Vangunu giant rat, Uromys vika Lavery & Judge, 2017Lavery, T. H.; Judge, H.; A new species of giant rat (Muridae, Uromys) from Vangunu, Solomon Islands, Journal of Mammalogy, gyx116, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx116
References
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{{Murinae (Stenocephalomys–Xeromys)}}
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Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
Category:Extant Pleistocene first appearances
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