Awash Multimammate Mouse

Awash Multimammate Mouse
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Mastomys
Species:	M. awashensis
Binomial name
Mastomys awashensis Lavrenchenko, Likhnova & Baskevich, 1998

The Awash Mastomys or Awash Multimammate Mouse (Mastomys awashensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Ethiopia. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and arable land. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

• Lavrenchenko, L. & Corti, M. 2004. Mastomys awashensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 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.