Ghana Rufous-nosed Rat

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Ghana Rufous-nosed Rat
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Oenomys Species: O. ornatus
Binomial name
Oenomys ornatus Thomas, 1911

The Ghana Rufous-nosed Rat (Oenomys ornatus) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It it found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and seasonally flooded agricultural land.

[edit] References

• Dieterlen, F. 2004. Oenomys ornatus. 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.