Brants's whistling rat
| Brants's whistling rat | |
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| Brants's whistling rat in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Parotomys |
| Species: | P. brantsii |
| Binomial name | |
| Parotomys brantsii (A. Smith, 1834) | |
Brants's whistling rat (Parotomys brantsii) is one of two species of Murid rodent in the genus Parotomys. It is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and pastureland.
Parotomys brantsii (Euryotis brantsii) by Andrew Smith (1849)[2]
References
- ↑ Coetzee, N. (2008). "Parotomys brantsii". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2008: e.T16270A5594231. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ↑ Smith, A. 1849. Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa: consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836, fitted out by the "Cape of Good Hope Association for exploring Central Africa". Vol 1. Mammalia (plate 24). Smith, Elder and Co. London.
- Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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