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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyMuridae
  6. ›genusArvicanthis
Arvicanthis niloticus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

African Arvicanthis

Arvicanthis niloticus (É.Geoffroy, 1803)

Also calledNil-Grasratte (deu) · Nilratte (deu) · Rat-roussard du Nil (fra)

First described in: Cat. Mam. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Paris p.186

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 9733997.