| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Rodentia
- ---- family: Muridae
- ----- species: Otomys irroratus
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| Characteristics: | herbivore; length: 24 cm, tail-length: 9 cm; grizzled dark brown to black, thick fur; blunt muzzle; round ears, |
| Countries: | - ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0116
- KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
- AT0709
- Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- 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
- AT1201
- Albany thickets
- AT1202
- Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1203
- Montane fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1314
- Nama Karoo
- AT1322
- Succulent Karoo
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| References: | Stuart and Stuart 2007: 130 |
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