Praomyini
| Praomyini Temporal range: Late Miocene - present,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Tribe: | Praomyini Lecompte et al., 2008 |
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Chingawaemys | |
Praomyini is a tribe of muroid rodents in the subfamily Murinae. Species in this tribe are found mostly throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, but one species (Mastomys erythroleucus) is found in North Africa, and another (Ochromyscus yemeni) is found in the Arabian Peninsula.[1][2][3]
Species
[edit]Recent species
[edit]Species in the tribe include:[1][4][5][6]
- Genus Chingawaemys
- Chingawa forest rat, Chingawaemys rarus
- Genus Colomys
- African wading rat, Colomys goslingi
- Genus Congomys
- Lukolela swamp rat, Congomys lukolelae
- Verschuren's swamp rat, Congomys verschureni
- Genus Heimyscus
- African smoky mouse, Heimyscus fumosus
- Genus Hylomyscus - African wood mice
- H. aeta group
- Beaded wood mouse, Hylomyscus aeta
- Hylomyscus grandis
- H. alleni group
- Allen's wood mouse, Hylomyscus alleni
- Angolan wood mouse, Hylomyscus carillus
- Stella wood mouse, Hylomyscus stella
- Walter Verheyen's mouse, Hylomyscus walterverheyeni
- H. anselli group
- Ansell's wood mouse, Hylomyscus anselli
- Arc Mountain wood mouse, Hylomyscus arcimontensis
- H. baeri group
- Baer's wood mouse, Hylomyscus baeri
- H. denniae group
- Montane wood mouse, Hylomyscus denniae
- Small-footed forest mouse, Hylomyscus endorobae
- Hylomyscus vulcanorum
- H. parvus group
- Little wood mouse, Hylomyscus parvus
- H. aeta group
- Genus Mastomys - multimammate rats
- Angolan multimammate mouse, Mastomys angolensis
- Awash multimammate mouse, Mastomys awashensis
- Southern multimammate mouse, Mastomys coucha
- Guinea multimammate mouse, Mastomys erythroleucus
- Hubert's multimammate mouse, Mastomys huberti
- Verheyen's multimammate mouse, Mastomys kollmannspergeri
- Natal multimammate mouse, Mastomys natalensis
- Shortridge's multimammate mouse, Mastomys shortridgei
- Genus Montemys
- Delectable soft-furred mouse, Montemys delectorum
- Genus Myomyscus
- Verreaux's mouse, Myomyscus verreauxii
- Genus Nilopegamys
- Ethiopian amphibious rat, Nilopegamys plumbeus (possibly extinct)
- Genus Ochromyscus - rock mice
- Brockman's rock mouse or Brockman's white-footed rat, Ochromyscus brockmani
- Yemeni mouse, Ochromyscus yemeni
- Genus Praomys - African soft-furred rats
- Praomys coetzeei
- Dalton's mouse, Praomys daltoni
- De Graaff's soft-furred mouse, Praomys degraaffi
- Deroo's mouse, Praomys derooi
- Hartwig's soft-furred mouse, Praomys hartwigi
- Jackson's soft-furred mouse, Praomys jacksoni
- Least soft-furred mouse, Praomys minor
- Misonne's soft-furred mouse, Praomys misonnei
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse, Praomys morio
- Muton's soft-furred mouse, Praomys mutoni
- Gotel Mountain soft-furred mouse, Praomys obscurus
- Peter's soft-furred mouse, Praomys petteri
- Forest soft-furred mouse, Praomys rostratus
- Tullberg's soft-furred mouse, Praomys tullbergi
- Genus Serengetimys
- Dwarf multimammate mouse, Serengetimys pernanus
- Genus Stenocephalemys - Ethiopian narrow-headed rats
- Ethiopian white-footed mouse, Stenocephalemys albipes
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat, Stenocephalemys albocaudata
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat, Stenocephalemys griseicauda
- Rupp's mouse, Stenocephalemys ruppi
- Genus Zelotomys - stink mice
- Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse, Zelotomys hildegardeae
- Woosnam's broad-headed mouse, Zelotomys woosnami
References
[edit]- ^ a b Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, retrieved 2021-12-07
- ^ Lecompte, Emilie; Aplin, Ken; Denys, Christiane; Catzeflis, François; Chades, Marion; Chevret, Pascale (2008-07-10). "Phylogeny and biogeography of African Murinae based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences, with a new tribal classification of the subfamily". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8 (1): 199. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-199. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 2490707. PMID 18616808.
- ^ "Early Late Miocene Murine Rodents from the Upper Part of the Nagri Formation, Siwalik Group, Pakistan, with a new fossil calibration point for the Tribe Apodemurini (Apodemus/Tokudaia) | Fossil Imprint" (in Czech). doi:10.2478/if-2017-0011. S2CID 134750740. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
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- ^ Nicolas, Violaine; Mikula, Ondřej; Lavrenchenko, Leonid A.; Šumbera, Radim; Bartáková, Veronika; Bryjová, Anna; Meheretu, Yonas; Verheyen, Erik; Missoup, Alain Didier; Lemmon, Alan R.; Moriarty Lemmon, Emily (2021-10-01). "Phylogenomics of African radiation of Praomyini (Muridae: Murinae) rodents: First fully resolved phylogeny, evolutionary history and delimitation of extant genera". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 163: 107263. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107263. hdl:10067/1795280151162165141. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 34273505.
- ^ Denys, Christiane; Lecompte, Emilie; Taylor, P. J. (21 July 2017). "Diagnoses and contents of new African and Eurasian Murinae (Rodentia, Muridae) tribes" (PDF).