Edward's swamp rat

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Edward's swamp rat
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Malacomys
Species:	M. edwardsi
Binomial name
*Malacomys edwardsi* Rochebrune, 1885

Edward's swamp rat (Malacomys edwardsi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

References

Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Hadromys–Maxomys)

Hadromys
Division

Hadromys (Manipur bush rat)	Manipur bush rat (H. humei) Yunnan bush rat (H. yunnanensis)

Hybomys
Division

Dephomys (Defua rats)	Defua rat (D. defua) Ivory Coast rat (D. eburneae)
Hybomys (Hump-nosed mice)	Eisentraut's striped mouse (H. badius) Father Basilio's striped mouse (H. basilii) Moon striped mouse (H. lunaris) Miller's striped mouse (H. planifrons) Temminck's striped mouse (H. trivirgatus) Peters's striped mouse (H. univittatus)
Stochomys	Target rat (S. longicaudatus)

Hydromys
Division

Baiyankamys	Mountain water rat (B. habbema) Shaw Mayer's water rat (B. shawmayeri)
Crossomys	Earless water rat (C. moncktoni)
Hydromys (Water rats)	Rakali (H. chrysogaster) Western water rat (H. hussoni) New Britain water rat (H. neobrittanicus) Ziegler's water rat (H. ziegleri)
Microhydromys	Southern groove-toothed moss mouse (M. argenteus) Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse (M. richardsoni)
Parahydromys	New Guinea waterside rat (P. asper)
Paraleptomys	Northern water rat (P. rufilatus) Short-haired water rat (P. wilhelmina)

Lorentzimys
Division

Lorentzimys	New Guinean jumping mouse (L. nouhuysi)

Malacomys
Division

Malacomys (Big-eared swamp rats)	Cansdale's swamp rat (M. cansdalei) Edward's swamp rat (M. edwardsi) Big-eared swamp rat (M. longipes)

Maxomys
Division

Maxomys
(Rajah rats)

See also: Aethomys–Chrotomys; Colomys–Golunda; Melasmothrix–Mus; Oenomys–Pithecheir; Pogonomys–Pseudomys; Rattus; Stenocephalomys–Xeromys; Otomys; Others

Taxon identifiers
Malacomys edwardsi	Wikidata: Q1766813 Wikispecies: Malacomys edwardsi CoL: 3XKKY EoL: 1179153 GBIF: 2439144 iNaturalist: 45523 IRMNG: 10597524 ITIS: 585305 IUCN: 12703 MDD: 1003336 MSW: 13001448 NCBI: 333388 Open Tree of Life: 371840

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