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''Lenomys'' is a genus of rodent endemic to
Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
. It contains the living
trefoil-toothed giant rat The trefoil-toothed giant rat (''Lenomys meyeri'') is a species 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 u ...
''(Lenomys meyeri)'' and the extinct ''
Lenomys grovesi ''Lenomys grovesi'' is an extinct species of rodent that lived on Sulawesi, Indonesia as recently as 2000 Before Present, BP. The specific epithet honours Colin Groves, a colleague and friend of the author. Diagnosis The only known remains of t ...
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Rodent genera Mammal genera with one living species Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Muridae Rodents of Sulawesi {{Murinae-stub