Acacia rat
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Acacia rats Fossil range: Early Pliocene to Recent |
||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||||||||||||
| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
| Species | ||||||||||||||
|
Thallomys loringi |
The Acacia rats (Thallomys) are a genus of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found in Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
[edit] Species
- Genus Thallomys
- Thallomys loringi (Heller, 1909)
- Thallomys nigricauda (Thomas, 1882)
- Thallomys paedulcus (Sundevall, 1846)
- Thallomys shortridgei Thomas and Hinton, 1923
[edit] References
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 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.
 |
This Murinae article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
