Barbour's Rock Mouse

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Barbour's Rock Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Nesomyidae
Genus: Petromyscus
Species: P. barbouri
Binomial name
Petromyscus barbouri
Shortridge & Carter, 1938

The Barbour's Rock Mouse (Petromyscus barbouri) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It is found only in South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and rocky areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.

[edit] References

  • Coetzee, N. & Schlitter, D. 2004. Petromyscus barbouri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  • 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.