Mount Chercher Brush-furred Rat
Lophuromys chercherensis Lavrenchenko, W.Verheyen, E.Verheyen, Hulseman & Leirs, 2007
Also calledMount-Chercher-Birstenhaarmaus (deu) · Rat-hérissé des Chercher (fra) · szczoteczniczka etiopska (pol)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
activity
Activity patterns. No information. Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Muridae
biology_ecology
Habitat. Mountain forests at elevations of 2000 - 2700 m. Food and Feeding. No information.
Muridae
description
Descriptive notes. Head-body 114 - 145 mm, tail 60 - 65 mm, ear 17 - 18 mm, hindfoot 22 - 24 mm; weight 36 - 78 g. Dorsum of the Mount Chercher Brush-furred Rat is brown, with light and dark bands. Karyotypeis 2 n = 70.
Muridae
discussion
Lophuromys chercherensis is in flavopunctatus species group and seems to be closely related to L. simensis and L. menagashae. Monotypic.
Muridae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 10820417.