Ethiopian Shaggy Rat
Dasymys griseifrons Osgood, 1936
Also calledDasymys d’ ' Ethiopie (fra) · Graubraune Wollhaarratte (deu) · sierściomysz etiopska (pol)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
activity
Activity patterns. Grayish-brown Shaggy Rats are presumably crepuscular and diurnal, like other members of genus.
Muridae
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Muridae
description
Descriptive notes. Head-body 166 mm, tail 135 mm, hindfoot 34 mm. No specific data are available for body weight. Like all Dasymys, it has soft, shaggy, long-haired fur that is mostly reddish-brown in color. Tail is shorter (88 %) than head-body length.
Muridae
discussion
Formerly included in D. incomtus, D. griseifrons was elevated to full species by S. K. Mullin and colleagues in 2004. One of the largest members of the genus, it has widest interorbital constriction of the skull. Monotypic.
Muridae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 11777032.