Common Rufous-nosed Rat

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Common Rufous-nosed Rat
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Oenomys Species: O. hypoxanthus
Binomial name
Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran, 1855)

The Common Rufous-nosed Rat (Oenomys hypoxanthus) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It it found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and seasonally flooded agricultural land.

[edit] References

• Dieterlen, F., Kerbis Peterhans, J. & Agwanda, B. 2004. Oenomys hypoxanthus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 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.