Description of a new thicket rat from Kenya: Grammomys brevirostris N. Sp.

Acta Zoologica Lituanica

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 221-227

  Kryštufek, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Africa; Grammomys dolichurus; Grammomys ibeanus; Rodentia; Taxonomy; Type specimens

Indexed keywords

GRAMMOMYS; GRAMMOMYS DOLICHURUS; GRAMMOMYS IBEANUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 70349243147     PISSN: 13921657     EISSN: 16486919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10043-008-0036-6     Document Type: Article

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