Oenomys
Sign in to saveOenomys is a genus of African rodents known as rufous-nosed rats. They occur from south-east Guinea and Ghana through the Congo forest to Uganda and Kenya. The nose is reddish, or at least the cheeks, which suggested both the English and scientific names (oeno- means "wine" and -mys denotes a mouselike animal in Greek).
Taxonomy · GBIF
Common Rufous-nosed Rat
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderRodentia
- FamilyMuridae
Observations14
Groupmammalia
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Oenomys is a genus of African rodents known as rufous-nosed rats. They occur from south-east Guinea and Ghana through the Congo forest to Uganda and Kenya. The nose is reddish, or at least the cheeks, which suggested both the English and scientific names (oeno- means "wine" and -mys denotes a mouselike animal in Greek).
The two recognised, living species occupy separate geographical ranges: Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran, 1855), common rufous-nosed rat Oenomys hypoxanthus albiventris (Eisentraut, 1968), a montane subspecies Oenomys ornatus (Thomas, 1911), Ghana rufous-nosed rat †Oenomys tiercelini