Angolan marsh rat [SEP] parent taxon
Angolan marsh rat
The Angolan marsh rat ("Dasymys nudipes") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Zambia.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
References.
- Taylor, P. & Boitani, L. 2004. Dasymys nudipes. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.  Downloaded on 9 July 2007.
after a pregnancy of 21 to 28 days. The species may be infected by several different parasites and by two hantaviruses.
The species was first described in 1877, the first of many related species from the region described until the 1910s. In 1918, Edward Alphonso Goldman consolidated most into the single species "Oryzomys couesi" and in 1960 Raymond Hall united this taxon with its United States relative, the marsh rice rat ("O. palustris"), into a single widespread species; subsequently, many related,