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Fat Mice
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Fat Mice

Steatomys

Fat mice are members of the genus Steatomys, rodents in the family Nesomyidae.

It contains the following species:

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8 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 8 known species

Common Fat Mouse

speciesSteatomys pratensis

Kreb's fat mouse

speciesSteatomys krebsii

Pousargues' Fat Mouse

speciesSteatomys opimus

Bocage's Fat Mouse

speciesSteatomys bocagei

Jackson's fat mouse

speciesSteatomys jacksoni

tiny fat mouse

speciesSteatomys parvus

dainty fat mouse

speciesSteatomys cuppedius

northwestern fat mouse

speciesSteatomys caurinus

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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 44921.