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African Climbing Mice
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African Climbing Mice

Dendromurinae

Dendromurinae is a subfamily of rodents in the family Nesomyidae and superfamily Muroidea. The dendromurines are currently restricted to Africa, as is the case for all extant members of the family Nesomyidae. The authorship of the subfamily has been attributed to both Alston, 1876, and (incorrectly) to G. M. Allen, 1939.

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7 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 28 known species

Climbing Mice

genusDendromus

Fat Mice

genusSteatomys

Malacothrix

genusMalacothrix

Poemys

genusPoemys

Prionomys

genusPrionomys

Dendroprionomys

genusDendroprionomys

Megadendromus

genusMegadendromus

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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 846232.