Oenomys is a genus of African rodents known as rufous-nosed rats. They occur from south-east Guinea and Ghana through the Congo forest to Uganda and Kenya. The nose is reddish, or at least the cheeks, which suggested both the English and scientific names (oeno- means "wine" and -mys denotes a mouselike animal in Greek).
The two recognised, living species occupy separate geographical ranges: Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran, 1855), common rufous-nosed rat Oenomys hypoxanthus albiventris (Eisentraut, 1968), a montane subspeciesZoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig. (1950). Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn (Vol. 19, p. 8). Das Forschungsinstitut. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44746670 Oenomys ornatus (Thomas, 1911), Ghana rufous-nosed rat †Oenomys tierceliniSabatier M., 1982. Les rongeurs du site Pliocène à Hominidés de Hadar (Ethiope). Palaeovertebrata 12 (1): 1-56.
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