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''Delomys'' is a genus of South American rodents in the tribe Thomasomyini of family Cricetidae. Four species are known, all found in the
Atlantic Forest The Atlantic Forest ( pt, Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and th ...
of Argentina and Brazil. They are as follows: * ''
Delomys altimontanus ''Delomys'' is a genus of South American rodents in the tribe Thomasomyini of family Cricetidae. Four species are known, all found in the Atlantic Forest of Argentina and Brazil. They are as follows: * '' Delomys altimontanus'' * Montane ...
'' * Montane Atlantic Forest rat (''Delomys collinus'') *
Striped Atlantic Forest rat The striped Atlantic Forest rat (''Delomys dorsalis'') is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Argentina and Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country ...
(''Delomys dorsalis'') * Pallid Atlantic Forest rat (''Delomys sublineatus'')


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Rodent genera Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas {{Sigmodontinae-stub