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Genus of rodents

Hypogeomys
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene - Recent
Malagasy giant rat (Hypogeomys antimena)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Nesomyidae
Subfamily: Nesomyinae
Genus: Hypogeomys
A. Grandidier, 1869

Hypogeomys is a genus of rodents in the family Nesomyidae, found in Madagascar. There is one extant species, the Malagasy giant rat (Hypogeomys antimena), currently an endangered species with a restricted range. There is also another species known from subfossils from a few thousand years ago, Hypogeomys australis. H. antinema measures 33 centimetres (13 in), making it the largest rodent in Madagascar, while H. australis seems to have been slightly larger.

References

  1. Goodman, S.M. and Rakotondravony, D. 1996. The Holocene distribution of Hypogeomys (Rodentia: Muridae: Nesomyinae) on Madagascar. Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine Biogéographie de Madagascar 1996:283–293.
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