African Wading Rat

African Wading Rat Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Subfamily:	Murinae
Genus:	Colomys Thomas & Wroughton, 1907
Species:	C. goslingi
Binomial name
Colomys goslingi Thomas & Wroughton, 1907

The African Wading Rat or African Water Rat (Colomys goslingi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Colomys. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, and intermittent rivers.

References

• ITIS
• Kerbis Peterhans, J., Schlitter, D., Dieterlen, F. & Cotterill, F.W. 2004. Colomys goslingi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 July 2007.
• 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=13001295.