Species Steatomys krebsii Peters, 1852 (Kreb's african fat mouse)

Biological classification:
  • kingdom: Animalia
  • - phylum: Chordata
  • -- class: Mammalia
  • --- order: Rodentia
  • ---- family: Muridae
  • ----- species: Steatomys krebsii
Characteristics:omnivore; total length: 13 cm, tail-length: 5 cm; ochre-yellow above, white below;
Countries:
BW
Botswana
NA
Namibia
ZW
Zimbabwe
Ecoregions:

AT0717
Southern Africa bushveld
AT0725
Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
AT0726
Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
AT0907
Zambezian flooded grasslands
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
AT1314
Nama Karoo
AT1322
Succulent Karoo
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References:Stuart and Stuart 2007: 110
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