Class [Mammalia] Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 - rodents
     Family Muridae Batsch, 1788 - rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
       Subfamily Cricetomyinae Roberts, 1951 - African pouched rats
         Genus Beamys Thomas, 1909 - long-tailed pouched rats
           1 Beamys hindei Thomas, 1909 - long-tailed pouched rat