Single-striped grass mouse
Appearance
Single-striped grass mouse | |
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Tagged single-striped grass mouse (L. rosalia) in Mbuluzi Game Reserve, Swaziland. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Lemniscomys |
Species: | L. rosalia
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Binomial name | |
Lemniscomys rosalia (Thomas, 1904)
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The single-striped grass mouse or single-striped lemniscomys (Lemniscomys rosalia) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
It is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Its natural habitats are moist savanna and arable land.
References
[edit]- ^ Van der Straeten, E., Monadjem, A. & Corti, M. 2004. Lemniscomys rosalia. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
- Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1343. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Rodents of Africa
- Mammals of Angola
- Mammals of Botswana
- Mammals of Kenya
- Mammals of Malawi
- Mammals of Mozambique
- Mammals of Namibia
- Mammals of South Africa
- Mammals of Eswatini
- Mammals of Tanzania
- Mammals of Zambia
- Mammals of Zimbabwe
- Mammals described in 1904
- Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
- Lemniscomys
- Murinae stubs