Northwestern Fat Mouse

Northwestern Fat Mouse
Northwestern Fat Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Nesomyidae
Genus: Steatomys
Species: S. caurinus
Binomial name
Steatomys caurinus
Thomas, 1912

The Northwestern Fat Mouse (Steatomys caurinus) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

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.
  • Schlitter, D. & Coetzee, N. 2004. Steatomys caurinus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.