Biology:Parotomys

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Short description: Genus of rodents

Parotomys
Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Recent
Brants's Whistling Rat-001.jpg
Brants's whistling rat (Parotomys brantsii)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Otomyini
Genus: Parotomys
Thomas, 1918
Type species
Euryotis brantsii
Species

Parotomys brantsii
Parotomys littledalei

Parotomys is a small genus of rodent in the family Muridae.[1] Member species are found in the African countries of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa . It contains the following two species:

References

Wikidata ☰ Q617189 entry