Saccostomus

Taxobox
name = "Saccostomus"
fossil_range = Early Pliocene - Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Nesomyidae
subfamilia = Cricetomyinae
tribus = Saccostomurini
tribus_authority = Musser & Carleton, 2005
genus = "Saccostomus"
genus_authority = Peters, 1846
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Saccostomus campestris"
"Saccostomus mearnsi"

"Saccostomus" is a genus of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It contains the following species:
* South African Pouched Mouse ("Saccostomus campestris")
* Mearns's Pouched Mouse ("Saccostomus mearnsi")

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.