Shortridge's Rat

Taxobox
name = Shortridge's Rat
status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Thallomys"
species = "T. shortridgei"
binomial = "Thallomys shortridgei"
binomial_authority = Thomas & Hinton, 1923
synonyms =

Shortridge's Rat ("Thallomys shortridgei") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found only in South Africa.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

References

* Boitani, L. & Taylor, P. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/21693/all Thallomys shortridgei] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
*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.