Biology:Hypogeomys

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Short description: Genus of rodents

Hypogeomys
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene - Recent
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Malagasy giant rat (Hypogeomys antimena)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Nesomyidae
Subfamily: Nesomyinae
Genus: Hypogeomys
A. Grandidier, 1869

Hypogeomys is a genus of rodents in the family Nesomyidae, found in Madagascar . There is one extant species, the Malagasy giant rat (Hypogeomys antimena), currently an endangered species with a restricted range. There is also another species known from subfossils from a few thousand years ago, Hypogeomys australis. H. antinema measures 33 centimetres (13 in), making it the largest rodent in Madagascar, while H. australis seems to have been slightly larger.[1]

References

  1. Goodman, S.M. and Rakotondravony, D. 1996. The Holocene distribution of Hypogeomys (Rodentia: Muridae: Nesomyinae) on Madagascar. Biogéographie de Madagascar 1996:283–293.

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