| Acacia rats Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Recent |
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| Thallomys paedulcus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Genus: | Thallomys Thomas, 1920 |
| Species | |
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Thallomys loringi |
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The Acacia rats (Thallomys) are a genus of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Genus Thallomys - acacia rats
{Murinae|OP.}}