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Hypogeomys
Sign in to saveHypogeomys 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 , making it the largest rodent in Madagascar, while H. australis seems to have been slightly larger.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderRodentia
- FamilyNesomyidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Nesomyidae
- Collections
- NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Madagascar
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Nesomyinae
- Image
- Malagasy.giant.rat.arp.jpg
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- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Hypogeomys antimena
- taxon name
- Hypogeomys
- topic's main category
- Category:Hypogeomys
- time period
- Holocene
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Encyclopedic overview
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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 , making it the largest rodent in Madagascar, while H. australis seems to have been slightly larger.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hypogeomys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.