''Thamnomys'' is a genus of
Old World rats
The Old World rats and mice, part of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, comprise at least 519 species. Members of this subfamily are called murines. In terms of species richness, this subfamily is larger than all mammal families excep ...
from East Central
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
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Species
*Genus ''Thamnomys''
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Kemp's thicket rat - ''Thamnomys kempi''
Dollman, 1911
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Hatt's thicket rat - ''Thamnomys major'' Hatt, 1934
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Charming thicket rat - ''Thamnomys venustus'' Thomas, 1907
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.
Rodent genera
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
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