Hydromyini
| Hydromyini Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent | |
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| Giant white-tailed rat (Uromys caudimaculatus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Tribe: | Hydromyini Gray, 1825 |
| Genera | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Chiropodomyini Pagès et al. 2015 | |
Hydromyini is a very large, diverse tribe of muroid rodents in the subfamily Murinae. They are the dominant native rodents in Australasia and one of only two native rodent groups there, the other being the R. fuscipes group of the genus Rattus in the tribe Rattini. They are also found in parts of Southeast Asia.
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