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Whistling Rats
Parotomys
Parotomys is a small genus of rodent in the family Muridae. Member species are found in the African countries of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. It contains the following two species:
2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species
Brants's Whistling Rat
speciesParotomys brantsii
Littledale's Whistling Rat
speciesParotomys littledalei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 45446.