| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Rodentia
- ---- family: Muridae
- ----- species: Dendromus mesomelas
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| Characteristics: | herbivore; length: 17cm, tail-length: 10 cm; reddish-brown to chestnut colouring, paler on the belly; the tail is longer than the head-and-body length; diffuse dark stripe down the back; |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- MZ
- Mozambique
- NA
- Namibia
- ZA
- South Africa
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0116
- KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT1003
- Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
- AT1012
- Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
- AT1201
- Albany thickets
- AT1202
- Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1203
- Montane fynbos and renosterveld
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| References: | Stuart and Stuart 2007: 112 |
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