Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
Species of rodent
| Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Lophuromys |
| Species: | L. flavopunctatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lophuromys flavopunctatus Thomas, 1888 | |
The yellow-spotted brush-furred rat (Lophuromys flavopunctatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. The population in Ethiopia is isolated and can be found at high altitudes up to 4,500 m above sea level.
References
- ^ Cassola, F. (2016). "Lophuromys flavopunctatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T47990318A22407469. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T47990318A22407469.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- Dieterlen, F. 2004. Lophuromys flavopunctatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 July 2007.
- 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. 1206. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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Extant species of subfamily Deomyinae
(Spiny mice)
- Western Saharan spiny mouse (A. airensis)
- Cairo spiny mouse (A. cahirinus)
- Chudeau's spiny mouse (A. chudeaui)
- Asia Minor spiny mouse (A. cilicicus)
- Gray spiny mouse (A. cineraceus)
- Eastern spiny mouse (A. dimidiatus)
- Fiery spiny mouse (A. ignitus)
- Johan's spiny mouse (A. johannis)
- Kemp's spiny mouse (A. kempi)
- Louise's spiny mouse (A. louisae)
- Crete spiny mouse (A. minous)
- Mullah spiny mouse (A. mullah)
- Muze spiny mouse (A. muzei)
- Cyprus spiny mouse (A. nesiotes)
- Nguru spiny mouse (A. ngurui)
- Percival's spiny mouse (A. percivali)
- Golden spiny mouse (A. russatus)
- Seurat's spiny mouse (A. seurati)
- Southern African spiny mouse (A. spinosissimus)
- Cape spiny mouse (A. subspinosus)
- Wilson's spiny mouse (A. wilsoni)
- Link rat (D. ferrugineus)
(Brush-furred mice)
- Subgenus Kivumys
- Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat (L. luteogaster)
- Medium-tailed brush-furred rat (L. medicaudatus)
- Woosnam's brush-furred rat (L. woosnami)
- Subgenus Lophuromys
- Angolan brush-furred rat (L. angolensis)
- Ansorge's brush-furred rat (L. ansorgei)
- Gray brush-furred rat (L. aquilus)
- Short-tailed brush-furred rat (L. brevicaudus)
- Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat (L. brunneus)
- Mount Chercher brush-furred rat (L. chercherensis)
- Ethiopian forest brush-furred rat (L. chrysopus)
- Dieterlen's brush-furred mouse (L. dieterleni)
- Dudu's brush-furred rat (L. dudui)
- Eisentraut's brush-furred rat (L. eisentrauti)
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat (L. flavopunctatus)
- Hutterer's brush-furred mouse (L. huttereri)
- Kilonzo's brush furred rat (L. kilonzoi)
- L. laticeps
- L. machangui
- Makundi's brush-furred rat (L. makundii)
- L. margarettae
- Black-clawed brush-furred rat (L. melanonyx)
- North Western Rift brush-furred rat (L. menageshae)
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat (L. nudicaudus)
- Sheko Forest brush-furred rat (L. pseudosikapusi)
- Rahm's brush-furred rat (L. rahmi)
- L. rita
- Mount Cameroon brush-furred rat (L. roseveari)
- Sabuni's brush-furred rat (L. sabunii)
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat (L. sikapusi)
- L. simensis
- Stanley's brush-furred rat (L. stanleyi)
- Verhagen's brush-furred rat (L. verhageni)
- Zena's brush-furred rat (L. zena)
- Rudd's mouse (U. ruddi)
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