Species Aethomys chrysophilus (de Winton, 1897) (Red veld rat)

Biological classification:
  • kingdom: Animalia
  • - phylum: Chordata
  • -- class: Mammalia
  • --- order: Rodentia
  • ---- family: Muridae
  • ----- species: Aethomys chrysophilus
Characteristics:herbivore; length:28 cm, tail-length: 15 cm; reddish-brown above, grey-white below, scaled tail;
Countries:

BW
Botswana
MZ
Mozambique
NA
Namibia
ZA
South Africa
ZW
Zimbabwe
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
AT0907
Zambezian flooded grasslands
AT0908
Zambezian halophytics
AT1003
Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
AT1004
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
AT1006
Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
AT1009
Highveld grasslands
AT1012
Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
AT1309
Kalahari xeric savanna
AT1314
Nama Karoo
Links:
References:Stuart and Stuart 2007: 116
Source: http://media.eol.org/data_objects/28616610
Date: 2014-04-12
Place: Dambari Field Station (Matabeleland, Zimbabwe)
Creator: Simon J. Tonge
Permission: Creative Commons Attribution License

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