Grant's Rock Mouse

Grant's Rock Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Aethomys
Species: A. granti
Binomial name
Aethomys granti
(Wroughton, 1908)
Synonyms

Micaelamys granti
Rattus granti

Grant's Rock Mouse or Grant's Rock Rat (Aethomys granti) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.[2] It is found only in South Africa. It is sometimes included in the genus Micaelamys. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and rocky areas.

References

  1. ^ Boitani, L. (2008). Aethomys granti. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 8 February 2009.
  2. ^ Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13001523.