Short-tailed Brush-furred Rat

Taxobox
name = Short-tailed Brush-furred Rat
status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Lophuromys"
species = "L. brevicaudus"
binomial = "Lophuromys brevicaudus"
binomial_authority = Osgood, 1936
synonyms = The Short-tailed Brush-furred Rat ("Lophuromys brevicaudus") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found only in Ethiopia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

* Lavrenchenko, L. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/45058/all Lophuromys brevicaudus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 09 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.