White-eared giant rat

White-eared giant rat; Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Tribe:	Hydromyini
Genus:	Hyomys; Thomas, 1904
Type species
	Hyomys meeki;
Species
	See text.

The white-eared giant rats, genus Hyomys, are a group of Old World rats from New Guinea.

Description

These large rodents belong to the genus Hyomys, with head and body lengths between 295–390 mm (11.6–15.4 in), tail lengths between 256–381 mm (10.1–15.0 in), and a weight of up to 945 g (33.3 oz).²

Species

Genus Hyomys - white-eared giant rats

Western white-eared giant rat, Hyomys dammermani Stein, 1933
Eastern white-eared giant rat, Hyomys goliath Milne-Edwards, 1900

References

Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
Novak, 1999

[1] Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

[2] Novak, 1999

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