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Rosevear's striped grass mouse

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Rosevear's striped grass mouse
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Lemniscomys
Species:
L. roseveari
Binomial name
Lemniscomys roseveari
Van der Straeten, 1980

Rosevear's lemniscomys or Rosevear's striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys roseveari) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.[2] It is found in Zambia and possibly Angola, where its natural habitat is cryptosephalum dry forest. The species is threatened by habitat loss.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Van der Straeten, E. (2008). "Lemniscomys roseveari". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  2. ^ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1343. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.