Nesokia is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae endemic to West Asia and Central Asia known as the short-tailed bandicoot rats.
| Nesokia Temporal range: Pliocene - Recent
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| Short-tailed bandicoot rat (Nesokia indica) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Rattini |
| Genus: | Nesokia Gray, 1842 |
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Species
editGenus Nesokia - short-tailed bandicoot rats:
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat (Nesokia indica) Gray, 1842
- Bunn's short-tailed bandicoot rat (Nesokia bunnii) (Khajuria, 1981)
References
edit- Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1415–1416. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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