Red rock rat

Red rock rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Aethomys
Species:
A. chrysophilus
Binomial name
Aethomys chrysophilus
(de Winton, 1897)
Synonyms
  • Mus voi Osgood, 1910
  • Mus chrysophilus subsp. acticola Thomas and Wroughton, 1908
  • Aethomys chrysophilus subsp. imago Thomas, 1927

The red rock rat (Aethomys chrysophilus) or red veld rat is a species of rodent in the family Muridae native to southern Africa.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.