| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Rodentia
- ---- family: Thryonomyidae
- ----- species: Thryonomys swinderianus
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| Characteristics: | herbivore; body-length: 60cm; the Greater Canerat's heavyset body is covered in a coarse, yellowish-brown pelage; the underside is much lighter; they have rounded ears; they are bigger than the Lesser Canerat; |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- MZ
- Mozambique
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0119
- Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
- AT0128
- Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
- AT0709
- Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0907
- Zambezian flooded grasslands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
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| References: | Cillié 1997: 178 |
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