Acacia rat
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Acacia rat
| Acacia rats Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Recent |
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| Thallomys paedulcus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Genus: | Thallomys Thomas, 1920 |
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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.
Species
Genus Thallomys - acacia rats
- Loring's Rat, Thallomys loringi (Heller, 1909)
- Black-Tailed Tree Rat, Thallomys nigricauda (Thomas, 1882)
- Acacia Thallomys, Thallomys paedulcus (Sundevall, 1846)
- Shortridge's Rat, Thallomys shortridgei (Thomas and Hinton, 1923)
References
- 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=13001839.
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