Arvicanthis

Summary

Arvicanthis is a genus of rodent from Africa. They are commonly referred to as unstriped grass mice, unstriped grass rats, and kusu rats.

Arvicanthis
Temporal range: Early Pliocene–Recent
African grass rat (Arvicanthis niloticus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Tribe: Arvicanthini
Genus: Arvicanthis
Lesson, 1842
Type species
Lemmus niloticus
Species

Arvicanthis abyssinicus
Arvicanthis ansorgei
Arvicanthis blicki
Arvicanthis nairobae
Arvicanthis neumanni
Arvicanthis niloticus
Arvicanthis rufinus

Species edit

Genus Arvicanthis - unstriped grass mice

Genetic evidence indicates that the extinct Canariomys is also nested within this genus.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Renom, Pere; de-Dios, Toni; Civit, Sergi; Llovera, Laia; Sánchez-Gracia, Alejandro; Lizano, Esther; Rando, Juan Carlos; Marquès-Bonet, Tomàs; Kergoat, Gael J.; Casanovas-Vilar, Isaac; Lalueza-Fox, Carles (2021). "Genetic data from the extinct giant rat from Tenerife (Canary Islands) points to a recent divergence from mainland relatives". Biology Letters. 17 (12): 20210533. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2021.0533. PMC 8692034. PMID 34932923.
  • 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.