Dainty Fat Mouse

Dainty Fat Mouse
Dainty Fat Mouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Nesomyidae
Genus: Steatomys
Species: S. cuppedius
Binomial name
Steatomys cuppedius
Thomas & Hinton, 1920

The Dainty Fat Mouse (Steatomys cuppedius) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal. 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 cuppedius. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.