Stenocephalemys

Stenocephalemys
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Subfamily:	Murinae
Tribe:	Praomyini
Genus:	Stenocephalemys Frick, 1914
Type species
Stenocephalemys albocaudata
Species
6, see text

Stenocephalemys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae.^[1] The genus is endemic to Ethiopia.^[2]

Species

Stenocephalemys contains six described species:^[2]

• Ethiopian white-footed mouse (Stenocephalemys albipes) (Rüppell, 1842)
• Ethiopian narrow-headed rat (Stenocephalemys albocaudata) Frick, 1914
• Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat (Stenocephalemys griseicauda) F. Petter, 1972
• Rupp's mouse (Stenocephalemys ruppi) Van der Straeten & Dieterlen, 1983
• Stenocephalemys sokolovi Lavrenchenko & Bryja, 2020
• Stenocephalemys zimai Lavrenchenko & Bryja, 2020

References

1. 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. 1500–1501. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. Mizerovská, Daniela; Mikula, Ondřej; Meheretu, Yonas; Bartáková, Veronika; Bryjová, Anna; Kostin, Danila S.; Šumbera, Radim; Lavrenchenko, Leonid A.; Bryja, Josef (2020-09-10). "Integrative taxonomic revision of the Ethiopian endemic rodent genus Stenocephalemys (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini) with the description of two new species". Journal of Vertebrate Biology. 69 (2): 1. doi:10.25225/jvb.20031. ISSN 2694-7684.