African Wading Rat
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| African Wading Rat Fossil range: Pleistocene to Recent |
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| Colomys goslingi Thomas & Wroughton, 1907 |
The African Wading Rat or African Water Rat (Colomys goslingi) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is the only species in the genus Colomys. It it found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, and intermittent rivers.
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- Kerbis Peterhans, J., Schlitter, D., Dieterlen, F. & Cotterill, F.W. 2004. Colomys goslingi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.it is a rat that can jup very high
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