Awash multimammate mouse
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| Species: | M. awashensis
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| Mastomys awashensis Lavrenchenko, Likhnova & Baskevich, 1998
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The Awash Mastomys or Awash Multimammate Mouse (Mastomys awashensis) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in Ethiopia. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and arable land. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
- Lavrenchenko, L. & Corti, M. 2004. Mastomys awashensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 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.
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