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{{Short description|Genus of rodents}}{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = [[Middle Pliocene]] - Recent
| image = Hydromys chrysogaster 17072011.jpg
| image_caption = [[Rakali]] (''Hydromys chrysogaster'')
| taxon = Hydromys
| authority = [[Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|É. Geoffroy]], 1804
| type_species = ''[[Hydromys chrysogaster]]''
| type_species_authority = É. Geoffroy, 1804
| range_map = Hydromys-Xeromys.PNG
| range_map_caption = red=''[[Hydromys chrysogaster]]''<br />
green=''[[Xeromys]]'' sp. and ''[[Hydromys chrysogaster]]''<br />
blue= ''Hydromys'' spp.
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''[[Hydromys chrysogaster]]''<br />
''[[Hydromys hussoni]]''<br />
''[[Hydromys neobritannicus]]''<br />
''[[Hydromys ziegleri]]''
}}

'''''Hydromys''''' is a [[genus (biology)|genus]] of [[semiaquatic]] [[rodent]]s in the subfamily [[Murinae]]. Three [[species]] are [[endemism|endemic]] to [[New Guinea]] and nearby islands. The fourth species, the [[rakali]], is also found on [[Australia]]. The most recently discovered member of this genus was described in 2005.

== List of species ==
Genus '''''Hydromys''''' - water rats:
*[[Rakali]], ''Hydromys chrysogaster'' <small>E. Geoffroy, 1804</small><ref name=":0">{{MSW3 Muroidea|id=13001379|pages=1334-1335}}</ref>
*[[Western water rat]], ''Hydromys hussoni'' <small>Musser and Piik, 1982</small><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{cite journal |last1=Helgen |first1=K. M. |date=March 2005 |title=The amphibious murines of New Guinea (Rodentia, Muridae): the generic status of ''Baiyankamys'' and description of a new species of ''Hydromys'' |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286514148 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=913 |issue=1 |pages=1–20 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.913.1.1}}</ref>
*[[New Britain water rat]], ''Hydromys neobritannicus'' <small>Tate and Archbold, 1935</small><ref name=":0" />
*[[Ziegler's water rat]], ''Hydromys ziegleri'' <small>Helgen, 2005</small><ref name=":1" />

Note: ''[[Hydromys habbema]]'' Tate and Archbold, 1941 and ''[[Hydromys shawmayeri]]'' (Hinton, 1943) are placed within ''[[Baiyankamys]]'' after Helgen, 2005.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

==References==
*{{cite journal |last1=Woollard |first1=P. |last2=Vestjens |first2=W. J. M. |last3=Maclean |first3=L. |title=The ecology of the eastern water rat ''Hydromys chrysogaster'' at Griffith, N.S.W.: Food and feeding habits. |journal=Wildlife Research |volume=5 |issue=1 |year=1978 |pages=59–73 |doi=10.1071/WR9780059}}
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== External links ==
* {{ITIS |id=585022 |taxon=''Hydromys'' E. Geoffroy, 1804 }}
* {{YouTube|MNkb5EDh024|Water Rat or orange bellied water rat aka Rakali, filmed in the wild at Bakers beach, Tasmania}}

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[[Category:Rodent genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]]