''Aethomys'' is a genus of
rodent
Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are n ...
from
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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[CHIMIMBA, CHRISTIAN T., NICO J. DIPPENAAR, and TERENCE J. ROBINSON.]
Morphometric and morphological delineation of southern African species of Aethomys (Rodentia: Muridae)
" Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 67.4 (1999): 501-527. They are commonly referred to as rock rats, bush rats or rock mice.
Species
*Genus ''Aethomys''
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Aethomys bocagei'' – Bocage's rock rat (Thomas, 1904)
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Aethomys chrysophilus'' – red rock rat (de Winton, 1897)
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Aethomys granti'' – Grant's rock rat (Wroughton, 1908)
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Aethomys hindei'' – Hinde's rock rat (Thomas, 1902)
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Aethomys ineptus'' – Tete Veld aethomys (Thomas & Wroughton, 1908)
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Aethomys kaiseri'' – Kaiser's rock rat (Noack, 1887)
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Aethomys namaquensis'' – Namaqua rock rat (A. Smith, 1834)
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Aethomys nyikae'' – Nyika rock rat (Thomas, 1897)
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Aethomys silindensis'' – Silinda rock rat (Roberts, 1938)
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Aethomys stannarius'' – Tinfield's rock rat (Thomas, 1913)
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Aethomys thomasi'' – Thomas's rock rat (de Winton, 1897)
References
Rodent genera
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
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