Fat Mouse

Fat Mouse

Taxobox
name = Fat Mouse
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Nesomyidae
genus = "Steatomys"
species = "S. pratensis"
binomial = "Steatomys pratensis"
binomial_authority = Peters, 1846
synonyms = The Fat Mouse ("Steatomys pratensis") is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

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. & Monadjem, A. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/20722/all Steatomys pratensis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 20 July 2007.


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