Acacia rat

Taxobox
name = Acacia rats
fossil_range = Early Pliocene to Recent

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Thallomys paedulcus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Murinae
genus = "Thallomys"
genus_authority = Thomas, 1920
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Thallomys loringi"
"Thallomys nigricauda"
"Thallomys paedulcus"
"Thallomys shortridgei"

The Acacia rats ("Thallomys") are a genus of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found in Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

pecies

*Genus "Thallomys"
**"Thallomys loringi" (Heller, 1909)
**"Thallomys nigricauda" (Thomas, 1882)
**"Thallomys paedulcus" (Sundevall, 1846)
**"Thallomys shortridgei" Thomas and Hinton, 1923

References

*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.