Loring's rat (Thallomys loringi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

[1] Loring captured the holotype for this species during the Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition.

Edmund Heller placed in the genus Thamnomys in his description of the species.

[2][3] In 1923, Oldfield Thomas and Martin Hinton moved it to the genus Thallomys.

[4] It had then become classified as a subspecies of either Thallomys nigricauda, as Ned Hollister, Glover Morrill Allen, and John Ellerman had each done, or Thallomys damarensis, as Francis Petter [fr] had done.