Hildegarde's Broad-Headed Mouse

Taxobox
name = Hildegarde's Broad-headed Mouse
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Zelotomys"
species = "Z. hildegardeae"
binomial = "Zelotomys hildegardeae"
binomial_authority = (Thomas, 1902)
synonyms =

Hildegarde's Broad-headed Mouse or Hildegarde's Zelotomys ("Zelotomys hildegardeae") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, swamps, plantations , and rural gardens.

References

* Coetzee, N. & Van der Straeten, E. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/23197/all Zelotomys hildegardeae] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 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.