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Oenomys

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Oenomys
Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent
Oenomys hypoxanthus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Arvicanthini
Genus: Oenomys
Thomas, 1904
Type species
Mus hypoxanthus
Species

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Oenomys is a genus of African rodents. Known as rufous-nosed rats or rusty-nosed rats, they occur from Sierra Leone east to Ethiopia and as far as south and northern Angola. The nose is reddish, or at least the cheeks, which suggested both the English and scientific names (oeno- means "wine-colored" and -mys denotes a mouselike animal).

Genus Oenomys - rufous-nosed rats