Black-tailed tree rat

Black-tailed tree rat
Adult with young
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Rodentia
Family:Muridae
Genus:Thallomys
Species: T. nigricauda
Binomial name
Thallomys nigricauda
Thomas, 1882
Synonyms[1]
  • bradfieldi Roberts, 1933
  • damarensis (De Winton, 1897)
  • davisi Lundholm, 1955
  • herero Thomas, 1926
  • kalaharicus (Dollman, 1911)
  • leuconoe Thomas, 1926
  • molopensis Roberts, 1933
  • nitela Thomas and Hinton, 1923
  • quissamae F. Petter and Beaufort, 1960
  • robertsi (Ellerman, Morrison-Scott, and Hayman, 1953)

The black-tailed tree rat (Thallomys nigricauda) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Citations

  1. ↑ Musser & Carleton 2005.

References

  • Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1509. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  • Taylor, P., Coetzee, N. & Boitani, L. 2004. Thallomys nigricauda. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.


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