Gregarious Short-Tailed Rat

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Gregarious Short-tailed Rat
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Brachyuromys Species: B. ramirohitra
Binomial name
Brachyuromys ramirohitra Major, 1896

The Gregarious Short-tailed Rat (Brachyuromys ramirohitra) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It is found only in Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Brachyuromys ramirohitra. 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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