Angolan Marsh Rat

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Angolan Marsh Rat
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Dasymys Species: D. nudipes
Binomial name
Dasymys nudipes (Peters, 1870)

The Angolan Marsh Rat (Dasymys nudipes) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It it found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

[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. & Boitani, L. 2004. Dasymys nudipes. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.