African Marsh Rat

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African Marsh Rat
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Dasymys Species: D. incomtus
Binomial name
Dasymys incomtus (Sundevall, 1847)

The African Marsh Rat or Common Dasymys (Dasymys incomtus) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It it found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and swamps.

[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.
• Taylor, P. 2004. Dasymys incomtus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.