Stenocephalemys

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Stenocephalemys
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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]

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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. 1 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.