Grammomys
| Grammomys Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent
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| Woodland thicket rat (Grammomys dolichurus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Arvicanthini |
| Genus: | Grammomys Thomas, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| Mus dolichurus | |
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Grammomys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae endemic to Africa. It contains the following species:
- Arid thicket rat (Grammomys aridulus)
- Short-snouted thicket rat (Grammomys brevirostris)
- Bunting's thicket rat (Grammomys buntingi)
- Gray-headed thicket rat (Grammomys caniceps)
- Mozambique thicket rat (Grammomys cometes)
- Woodland thicket rat (Grammomys dolichurus)
- Forest thicket rat (Grammomys dryas)
- Giant thicket rat (Grammomys gigas)
- Ruwenzori thicket rat (Grammomys ibeanus)
- Eastern rainforest grammomys (Grammomys kuru)
- Macmillan's thicket rat (Grammomys macmillani)
- Ethiopian thicket rat (Grammomys minnae)
- Shining thicket rat (Grammomys poensis)
- Selous thicket rat (Grammomys selousi)[1]
- African woodland thicket rat (Grammomys surdaster) [2]
References
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.