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Zelotomys is a genus of rodents in the subfamily Murinae, the Old World rats and mice. They are known commonly as the broad-headed mice. They are native to Africa. There are two species.

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Vinony's link graph records 423 inbound references to Zelotomys, and connects out to Sigmodontinae, Gerbillinae and Arvicolinae.

It is catalogued under topics including Rodent genera, Taxa named by Wilfred Hudson Osgood and Zelotomys.

Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Hildegarde's Broad-headed Stink Mouse

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassMammalia
  4. OrderRodentia
  5. FamilyMuridae
Observations0
Observations recorded225

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
16
Family
Muridae
Collections
RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, AMNH, NHMUK
Recorded in
Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Malawi

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Murinae
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Zelotomys woosnami.jpg
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topic's main category
Category:Zelotomys
taxon name
Zelotomys
Commons category
Zelotomys
taxon rank
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Encyclopedic overview

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Zelotomys is a genus of rodents in the subfamily Murinae, the Old World rats and mice. They are known commonly as the broad-headed mice. They are native to Africa. There are two species.

==Species== Zelotomys hildegardeae – Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse Zelotomys woosnami – Woosnam's broad-headed mouse

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zelotomys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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