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Creek Rats
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Creek Rats

Pelomys

Pelomys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae endemic to Africa.

It contains the following species:

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

East African Creek Rat

speciesPelomys fallax

Komemys

subgenusKomemys

Pelomys

subgenusPelomys

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 45135.