Parotomys: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Parotomys
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Parotomys
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Parotomys
Parotomys is a small genus of rodent in the family Muridae. Member species are found in the African countries of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. It contains the following two species:
- Brants's whistling rat (Parotomys brantsii)
- Littledale's whistling rat (Parotomys littledalei)
Parotomys in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Fluitrotte
- Bokmål
- Plystrerotter
- English
- Whistling Rats
- Finnish
- viheltäjärotat
- Russian
- Паротомисы
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