African Wading Rat Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Subfamily: | Murinae |
Genus: | Colomys Thomas & Wroughton, 1907 |
Species: | C. goslingi |
Binomial name | |
Colomys goslingi Thomas & Wroughton, 1907 |
The African Wading Rat or African Water Rat (Colomys goslingi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Colomys. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, and intermittent rivers.