Biology:Crawford-Cabral's shaggy rat

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Short description: Species of rodent

Crawford-Cabral's shaggy rat
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Dasymys
Species:
D. cabrali
Binomial name
Dasymys cabrali
W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Dierckx, Colyn, Leirs, E. Verheyen, 2003[1]

Crawford-Cabral's shaggy rat or Crawford-Cabral's shaggy marsh rat (Dasymys cabrali) is a species of shaggy marsh rat endemic to north-eastern Namibia, near the Okavango River.[2]

See also

  • List of mammals of Namibia

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Verheyen, Walter N.; Hulselmans, Jan L. J.; Dierckx, Theo; Colyn, Marc; Leirs, Herwig; Verheyen, Erik (2003). "A craniometric and genetic approach to the systematics of the genus Dasymys Peters, 1875, selection of a neotype and description of three new taxa (Rodentia, Muridae, Africa)". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie (73): 27–71. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds (16 November 2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. JHU Press. p. 1315. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=YnYED-YG0ZYC. Retrieved 31 August 2013. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2478107 entry