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Fox's Shaggy Rat (Dasymys foxi) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in Nigeria. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and plantations . It is threatened by habitat loss.
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- 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. 2004. Dasymys foxi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
