Nesomys: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Nesomyidae
- Genus
- Nesomys
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Nesomys
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Nesomys
Nesomys, also called red forest rats, is a genus of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is found only on Madagascar, and contains the following species:
- White-bellied nesomys (Nesomys audeberti)
- Western nesomys (Nesomys lambertoni)
- Nesomys narindaensis †
- Island mouse (Nesomys rufus)
Nesomys in languages:
- English
- Red Forest Rats
- Finnish
- madagaskarinpunarotat
- Polish
- malgaszomysz
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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