| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Rodentia
- ---- family: Muridae
- ----- species: Aethomys namaquensis
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| Characteristics: | herbivore; length:23-29 cm, tail-length: 15 cm; the fur is yellowish-brown with lighter underparts; the tail is covered in scales |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- MZ
- Mozambique
- NA
- Namibia
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0116
- KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
- AT0119
- Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
- AT0128
- Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
- AT0702
- Angolan Mopane woodlands
- AT0709
- Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0726
- Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
- AT1009
- Highveld grasslands
- AT1012
- Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
- AT1201
- Albany thickets
- AT1202
- Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1203
- Montane fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1309
- Kalahari xeric savanna
- AT1310
- Kaokoveld desert
- AT1314
- Nama Karoo
- AT1315
- Namib desert
- AT1316
- Namibian savanna woodlands
- AT1322
- Succulent Karoo
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| References: | Cillié 1997: 213 |
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