Shortridge's Multimammate Mouse

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Shortridge's Multimammate Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Mastomys
Species: M. shortridgei
Binomial name
Mastomys shortridgei
(St. Leger, 1933)

Shortridge's Multimammate Mouse (Mastomys shortridgei) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, and Namibia. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and swamps.

[edit] References

  • Coetzee, N. & Griffin, M. 2004. Mastomys shortridgei. 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.