Class [Mammalia] Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 - rodents
Family Muridae Batsch, 1788 - rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
Subfamily Nesomyinae Forsyth Major, 1897 - Madagascan rats
Genus Mystromys Wagner, 1841 - white-tailed rat
Mystromys albicaudatus (A. Smith, 1834) - white-tailed rat