Fat Mouse

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Fat Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Nesomyidae
Genus: Steatomys
Species: S. pratensis
Binomial name
Steatomys pratensis
Peters, 1846

The Fat Mouse (Steatomys pratensis) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

[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.
  • Schlitter, D. & Monadjem, A. 2004. Steatomys pratensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
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