| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Rodentia
- ---- family: Muridae
- ----- species: Otomys angoniensis
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| Characteristics: | herbivore; length: 30 cm; pale to dark brown with greyish underparts; very short tail dark above and paler below; very large ears; larger than the similar Vlei rat |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- LS
- Lesotho
- MZ
- Mozambique
- SZ
- Swaziland
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0116
- KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
- AT0119
- Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
- AT0709
- Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT1003
- Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
- AT1009
- Highveld grasslands
- AT1012
- Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
- AT1309
- Kalahari xeric savanna
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| References: | Cillié 1997: 212 |
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