Schouteden's Thicket Rat
Thamnomys schoutedeni Hatt, 1934
Also calledRat des fourrés de Schouteden (fra) · Schouteden-Dickichtratte (deu) · Thamnomys de Schouteden (fra) · zarośloszczur kongijski (pol)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
biology_ecology
Habitat. Primary and secondary rainforest and submontane forest, at 800 - 1450 m.
Muridae
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Muridae
conservation
Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List.
Muridae
description
Descriptive notes. Head — body 114 - 122 mm, tail 171 - 203 mm, ear 16 - 20 mm, hindfoot 24 - 26 mm; weight 40 - 50 g. Schouteden’s Thicket Ratis the smallest member of the genus. Furis long, soft, and brown or russet brown above, paler on flanks, sharply delineated from whitish belly, without any separating line. Head is grayish buff with black nose tip. Eyes lack dark ring. Ears are dark brown with white subauricular tuft. Feet are similar in color to flanks; hindfeet short. Tail is very long (c. 155 % of head-body length), slightly scaly, brown, with conspicuous terminal tuft of longer hairs.
Muridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Thamnomys schoutedeni in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5786731.