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Rufous-nosed Rats
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Rufous-nosed Rats

Oenomys

Oenomys is a genus of African rodents known as rufous-nosed rats. They occur from south-east Guinea and Ghana through the Congo forest to Uganda and Kenya. The nose is reddish, or at least the cheeks, which suggested both the English and scientific names (oeno- means "wine" and -mys denotes a mouselike animal in Greek).

The two recognised, living species occupy separate geographical ranges:

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Common Rufous-nosed Rat

speciesOenomys hypoxanthus

Ghana Rufous-nosed Rat

speciesOenomys ornatus

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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 45132.