Malacomys

Malacomys Temporal range: Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Subfamily:	Murinae
Genus:	Malacomys Milne-Edwards, 1877
Species
Malacomys cansdalei Malacomys edwardsi Malacomys longipes

Malacomys is a small genus of rodent in the family Muridae. It contains the following three species:

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.

Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Hadromys–Maxomys)

Hadromys
Division

Hadromys (Manipur bush rat)	Manipur bush rat (H. humei) H. loujacobsi Yunnan bush rat (H. yunnanensis)

Hybomys
Division

Dephomys (Defua rats)	Defua rat (D. defua) Ivory Coast rat (D. eburneae)

Hybomys (Hump-nosed mice)	Eisentraut's striped mouse (H. badius) Father Basilio's striped mouse (H. basilii) Moon striped mouse (H. lunaris) Miller's striped mouse (H. planifrons) Temminck's striped mouse (H. trivirgatus) Peters' striped mouse (H. univittatus)

Stochomys	Target rat (S. longicaudatus)

Hydromys
Division

Baiyankamys	Mountain water rat (B. habbema) Shaw Mayer's water rat (B. shawmayeri)

Crossomys	Earless water rat (C. moncktoni)

Hydromys (Water rats)	Rakali (H. chrysogaster) Western water rat (H. hussoni) New Britain water rat (H. neobrittanicus) Ziegler's water rat (H. ziegleri)

Microhydromys	Southern groove-toothed shrew mouse (M. argenteus) Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse (M. richardsoni)

Parahydromys	New Guinea waterside rat (P. asper)

Paraleptomys	Northern water rat (P. rufilatus) Short-haired water rat (P. wilhelmina)

Lorentzimys
Division

Lorentzimys	New Guinean jumping mouse (L. nouhuysi)

Malacomys
Division

Malacomys (Big-eared swamp rats)	Cansdale's swamp rat (M. cansdalei) Edward's swamp rat (M. edwardsi) Big-eared swamp rat (M. longipes)

Maxomys
Division

Maxomys
(Rajah rats)

See also: Aethomys–Chrotomys; Colomys–Golunda; Melasmothrix–Mus; Oenomys–Pithecheir; Pogonomys–Pseudomys; Rattus; Stenocephalomys–Xeromys; Otomys; Others

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