Giant Thicket Rat

Taxobox
name = Giant Thicket Rat
status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Grammomys"
species = "G. gigas"
binomial = "Grammomys gigas"
binomial_authority = (Dollman, 1911)
synonyms = The Giant Thicket Rat ("Grammomys gigas") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found only in Kenya.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

* Agwanda, B. & Boitani, L. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/9456/all Grammomys gigas] . [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.