Gray-Headed Thicket Rat

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Gray-headed Thicket Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Grammomys
Species: G. caniceps
Binomial name
Grammomys caniceps
Hutterer & Dieterlen, 1984

The Gray-headed Thicket Rat (Grammomys caniceps) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found in Kenya and Somalia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

[edit] References

  • Boitani, L. & Hutterer, R. 2004. Grammomys caniceps. 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.
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