Hatt's thicket rat

Species of rodent

Hatt's thicket rat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Thamnomys
Species:
T. major
Binomial name
Thamnomys major
(Hatt, 1934)[1]

Hatt's thicket rat (Thamnomys major), is a species of thicket rat indigenous to the northern slopes of Mount Karisimbi, an inactive volcano in North Kivu (Nord-Kivu) province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since the species is identifiable only via the holotype, its exact distribution is indeterminable. Contemporary analysis suggests a 'significant' difference in the size of the holotype and T. kempi, where the former also exhibits molar features atypical of the later. Yet other specimens collected from the slopes of Mount Karisimbi, rats that Hatt had considered as examples of T. major, were subsequently described as consistent with T. kempi.[2]

References

  1. ^ Hatt, R. T. "Fourteen hitherto unrecognized African rodents". American Museum Novitates (708): 10.
  2. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801882210.
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Oenomys–Pithecheir)
Oenomys
Division
Grammomys
  • Arid thicket rat (G. aridulus)
  • G. brevirostris
  • Bunting's thicket rat (G. buntingi)
  • Gray-headed thicket rat (G. caniceps)
  • Mozambique thicket rat (G. cometes)
  • Woodland thicket rat (G. dolichurus)
  • Forest thicket rat (G. dryas)
  • Giant thicket rat (G. gigas)
  • Ruwenzori thicket rat (G. ibeanus)
  • Eastern rainforest thicket rat (G. kuru)
  • Macmillan's thicket rat (G. macmillani)
  • Ethiopian thicket rat (G. minnae)
  • Shining thicket rat (G. poensis)
  • Selous thicket rat (G. selousi)
Lamottemys
  • Mount Oku rat (L. okuensis)
Oenomys
(Rufous-nosed rats)
  • Common rufous-nosed rat (O. hypoxanthus)
  • Ghana rufous-nosed rat (O. ornatus)
Thallomys
(Acacia rats)
  • Loring's rat (T. loringi)
  • Black-tailed tree rat (T. nigricauda)
  • Acacia rat (T. paedulcus)
  • Shortridge's rat (T. shortridgei)
Thamnomys
(Thicket rats)
  • Kemp's thicket rat (T. kempi)
  • Hatt's thicket rat (T. major)
  • Charming thicket rat (T. venustus)
Phloeomys
Division
Batomys
(Luzon and Mindanao
forest rats)
  • Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat (B. dentatus)
  • Luzon hairy-tailed rat (B. granti)
  • Hamiguitan hairy-tailed rat (B. hamiguitan)
  • Dinagat hairy-tailed rat (B. russatus)
  • Mindanao hairy-tailed rat (B. salomonseni)
  • Mount Isarog hairy-tailed rat (B. uragon)
Carpomys
(Luzon rats)
  • Short-footed Luzon tree rat (C. melanurus)
  • White-bellied Luzon tree rat (C. phaeurus)
Crateromys
(Cloudrunners)
  • Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat (C. australis)
  • Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat (C. schadenbergi)
  • Panay cloudrunner (C. heaneyi)
  • Ilin Island cloudrunner (C. paulus)
Phloeomys
(Slender-tailed
cloud rats)
  • Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat (P. cumingi)
  • Northern Luzon giant cloud rat (P. pallidus)
Pithecheir
Division
Eropeplus
  • Sulawesi soft-furred rat (E. canus)
Lenomys
  • Trefoil-toothed giant rat (L. meyeri)
Lenothrix
  • Gray tree rat (L. canus)
Margaretamys
(Margareta's rats)
  • Beccari's margareta rat (M. beccarii)
  • Christine's margareta rat (M. christinae)
  • Elegant margareta rat (M. elegans)
  • Little margareta rat (M. parvus)
Pithecheir
(Monkey-footed rats)
  • Red tree rat (P. melanurus)
  • Malayan tree rat (P. parvus)
Pithecheirops
  • Bornean pithecheirops (P. otion)
See also
Aethomys–Chrotomys
Colomys–Golunda
Hadromys–Maxomys
Melasmothrix–Mus
Pogonomys–Pseudomys
Rattus
Stenocephalomys–Xeromys
Otomys
Others
Taxon identifiers
Thamnomys major