Macmillan's Thicket Rat

Macmillan's Thicket Rat

Taxobox
name = Macmillan's Thicket Rat
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Grammomys"
species = "G. macmillani"
binomial = "Grammomys macmillani"
binomial_authority = (Wroughton, 1907)
synonyms =
The Macmillan's Thicket Rat ("Grammomys macmillani") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, shrub-dominated wetlands, and urban areas.

References

* Dieterlen, F. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/9458/all Grammomys macmillani] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 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.


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