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| name = Lesser hamster-rat<br />
| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| genus = Beamys<br />
| species = hindei<br />
| authority = [[Oldfield Thomas|Thomas]], 1909<br />
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| image = Beamys hindei 156259379.jpg<br />
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The '''lesser hamster-rat''' or '''long-tailed pouched rat''' ('''''Beamys hindei''''') is a species of [[rodent]] in the family [[Nesomyidae]]. It is found in [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]]. Its natural [[habitat]] is subtropical or tropical moist lowland coastal [[forest]]s.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Monadjem |first1=Ara |last2=Taylor |first2=Peter J. |last3=Denys |first3=Christiane |last4=Cotterill |first4=Fenton P.D. |date=2015-01-16 |title=Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110301915 |doi=10.1515/9783110301915|isbn=978-3-11-030166-3 }}</ref> It is threatened by [[habitat loss]]. [[Oldfield Thomas]] named it in honor of [[Sidney Langford Hinde]], a British officer and recreational [[naturalist]].<ref>Beolens, B., Watkins, M., & Grayson, M. (2009). The eponym dictionary of mammals. JHU Press.</ref>{{rp|191}}<br />
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===Sources===<br />
* Howell, K. & Oguge, N. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/2676/all Beamys hindei]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140627094911/http://www.iucnredlist.org/ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.<br />
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp.&nbsp;894–1531 ''in'' Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.<br />
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