Echimyidae, the Neotropical spiny rats, a family of South and Central American caviomorph rodents
or any of the following genera or species of tropical or subtropical east Asian or Australasian rats of subfamily Murinae:
Echiothrix, a rat genus from Sulawesi
Maxomys, a genus of Southeast Asian rats
Large New Guinea spiny rat (Rattus praetor), a rat species from New Guinea and nearby islands
Small spiny rat or Stein's rat (Rattus steini), a rat species from New Guinea
Mindanao spiny rat (Tarsomys echinatus) from Mindanao
Tokudaia, a rat genus from the Ryukyu Islands
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This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Spiny rat. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
Spinyrat may refer to: Echimyidae, the Neotropical spiny rats, a family of South and Central American caviomorph rodents or any of the following genera...
Myocastoridae, Myocastor is now included within Echimyidae, the family of the spiny rats. The nutria lives in burrows alongside stretches of water and feeds...
(Hydromys chrysogaster), also known as the rabe, the "Australian Otter" or water-rat, is an Australian native rodent first scientifically described in 1804. Adoption...
prominent murine species have become vital laboratory animals: the brown rat and house mouse are both used as medical subjects. The murines have a distinctive...
mountain rat (Rattus arfakiensis) Western New Guinea mountain rat (Rattus arrogans) Manus Island spinyrat (Rattus detentus) – Papua New Guinea Sula rat (Rattus...
predators long enough for the spinyrat to escape. Unlike the tails of some species of lizards, however, the tails of spiny rats do not regenerate. Therefore...
with blood feeding rodent mites such as the tropical rat mite (Ornithonyssus bacoti) and spinyrat mite (Laelaps echidnina), which will opportunistically...
The Polynesian rat, Pacific rat or little rat (Rattus exulans), known to the Māori as kiore, is the third most widespread species of rat in the world behind...
Small spinyrat may refer to several different rat species: Maxomys baeodon from Borneo Rattus steini from New Guinea This disambiguation page lists articles...
The black rat (Rattus rattus), also known as the roof rat, ship rat, or house rat, is a common long-tailed rodent of the stereotypical rat genus Rattus...
The Tokunoshima spinyrat (Tokudaia tokunoshimensis) is a rodent found only on the island of Tokunoshima in the Satsunan Islands of Japan. Due to its...
(armored rats), and both form a clade of lowland rainforest terrestrial spiny rats. On the other hand, Callistomys (painted tree-rats) is the sister group...
The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, wharf rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat and Norwegian rat, is a widespread...
of the armored rat range from black to reddish brown, and has a pure white underside. They are similar in appearance to Tome's spiny-rat, but the eyes...
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