Hubert's Multimammate Mouse

Hubert's Multimammate Mouse
Hubert's Multimammate Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Mastomys
Species: M. huberti
Binomial name
Mastomys huberti
(Wroughton, 1909)

Hubert's Multimammate Mouse, or Hubert's Mastomys (Mastomys huberti) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Burkina Faso, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, possibly Guinea, possibly Guinea-Bissau, and possibly Niger. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, arable land, rural gardens, urban areas, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.

References

  • Granjon, L. 2004. Mastomys huberti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 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.