Rudd's mouse [SEP] parent taxon
Rudd's mouse
Rudd's mouse or the white-bellied brush-furred rat ("Uranomys ruddi") is the only member of the genus Uranomys. This animal is closely related to the spiny mice, brush-furred mice, and the link rat.
Description.
Head and body sizes range from 8.4-13.4 cm long. Tail length is 5.3-7.9 cm. Weight is 41-53 g. The hairs on the back of this species are stiff like the brush-furred mice,
mole-rat, "Tachyoryctes ankoliae"
- Rudd's African mole-rat, "Tachyoryctes ruddi"
- Family: Nesomyidae
- Subfamily: Delanymyinae
- Genus: "Delanymys"
- Delany's swamp mouse, "Delanymys brooksi" EN
- Subfamily: Dendromurinae
- Genus: "Dendromus"
- Montane African climbing mouse, "Dendromus insignis" LC
- Kivu climbing mouse, "Dendromus kivu" LC
- Gray climbing mouse, "Dendromus melanotis" LC
- Chestnut climbing