Mearns's Pouched Mouse
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Mearns's Pouched Mouse
| Mearns's Pouched Mouse | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Nesomyidae |
| Genus: | Saccostomus |
| Species: | S. mearnsi |
| Binomial name | |
| Saccostomus mearnsi Heller, 1910 |
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Mearns's Pouched Mouse (Saccostomus mearnsi) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, hot deserts, and arable land.
References
- Corti, M., Oguge, N. & Coetzee, N. 2004. Saccostomus mearnsi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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