Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 - rodents
     Suborder Sciurognathi (Tullberg, 1899) see Suborder Sciuromorpha Brandt, 1855
       Family Muridae Batsch, 1788 - rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
         Subfamily Murinae Batsch, 1788 - Old World mice and rats
           Genus Dasymys Peters, 1875 - shaggy swamp rat
             1 Dasymys foxi Thomas, 1912
             2 Dasymys incomtus (Sundevall, 1847) - African marsh rat
             3 Dasymys montanus Thomas, 1906
             4 Dasymys nudipes (Peters, 1870)
             5 Dasymys rufulus Miller, 1900