Shortridge's Multimammate Mouse

Shortridge's Multimammate Mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Mastomys
Species:	M. shortridgei
Binomial name
Mastomys shortridgei (St. Leger, 1933)

Shortridge's Multimammate Mouse (Mastomys shortridgei) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, and Namibia. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and swamps.

References

• Coetzee, N. & Griffin, M. 2004. Mastomys shortridgei. 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.