Afroalpine vlei rat
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Otomys |
| Species: | O. orestes
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| Binomial name | |
| Otomys orestes Thomas, 1900
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The afroalpine vlei rat (Otomys orestes) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in the high moorlands of Kenya.[1]
Taxonomy
In Musser and Carleton (2005), this species included a number of subspecies.
Otomys thomasi (Thomas's vlei rat), which was initially described as a species by Osgood in 1910, was included under O. orestes in their work, alongside.[2] However, Taylor et al. (2011) found that O. thomasi, O. zinki (Mount Kilimanjaro vlei rat) and others subspecies were distinct from O. orestes.[3][4]
References
- ^ Carleton, M.D, and E.S. Schaefer. 2006. The status of Otomys orestes dollmani Heller, 1912 (Muridae: Otomyinae), a rodent described from the Mathews Range, central Kenya. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 119: 477–515.
- ^ Osgood, W. H. (1910). "Diagnoses of new East African mammals, including a new genus of Muridae". Field Museum of Natural History. 10 (2). Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- S2CID 59381852. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
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- OCLC 62265494.
- Taylor, P. & Maree, S. 2004. Otomys orestes[permanent dead link]. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 July 2007.