Afroalpine vlei rat | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Otomys |
Species: | O. orestes
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Binomial name | |
Otomys orestes
Thomas, 1900
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The afroalpine vlei rat (Otomys orestes) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in the high moorlands of Kenya. [1]
In Musser and Carleton (2005), this species included a number of subspecies.
Otomys thomasi ( Thomas's vlei rat), which was initially described as a species by Osgood in 1910, was included under O. orestes in their work, alongside. [2] However, Taylor et al. (2011) found that O. thomasi, O. zinki ( Mount Kilimanjaro vlei rat) and others subspecies were distinct from O. orestes. [3] [4]
Afroalpine vlei rat | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Otomys |
Species: | O. orestes
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Binomial name | |
Otomys orestes
Thomas, 1900
|
The afroalpine vlei rat (Otomys orestes) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in the high moorlands of Kenya. [1]
In Musser and Carleton (2005), this species included a number of subspecies.
Otomys thomasi ( Thomas's vlei rat), which was initially described as a species by Osgood in 1910, was included under O. orestes in their work, alongside. [2] However, Taylor et al. (2011) found that O. thomasi, O. zinki ( Mount Kilimanjaro vlei rat) and others subspecies were distinct from O. orestes. [3] [4]