Brants's Whistling Rat

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Brants's Whistling Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Parotomys
Species: P. brantsii
Binomial name
Parotomys brantsii
(A. Smith, 1834)

Brants's Whistling Rat (Parotomys brantsii) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and pastureland.

[edit] References

  • Coetzee, N. 2004. Parotomys brantsii. 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.