Hinde's rock rat

Hinde's rock rat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Aethomys
Species:	A. hindei
Binomial name
Aethomys hindei (Thomas, 1902)

Hinde's rock rat (Aethomys hindei) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae^[2] found in Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, moist savanna, and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland. Oldfield Thomas named it in honor of Sidney Langford Hinde, a British officer and recreational naturalist.^[3]: 191

References

1. Agwanda, B. (2008). "Aethomys hindei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2009.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help)
2. Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009-11-18). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9533-3.