Biology:Awash multimammate mouse
| Awash multimammate mouse | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Mastomys |
| Species: | M. awashensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Mastomys awashensis Lavrenchenko, Likhnova & Baskevich, 1998
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The Awash multimammate mouse or Awash mastomys (Mastomys awashensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found only in Ethiopia. Phylogentically the Awash multimammate mouse is the sister taxon of the Natal multimammate mouse (M. natalensis), a species found almost everywhere in Africa south of the Sahara and considered a serious agricultural pest throughout its range.[2]
Habitat
Its natural habitats are dry savanna and arable land.[3] It is threatened by habitat loss. It is also considered as a pest for grain crops.[4]
Ecology
The species' ecology has been studied in detail in the croplands of the Degua Tembien district in Tigray,[2] where it commonly occurs in crop fields, domestic and peri-domestic habitats in wider altitudinal range (1500 m up to 2700 m). Being a nocturnal and burrowing species, it prefers crop fields with vertisols. Likewise, the multimammate mouse possibly contributes to a significant portion to the rodent diet of night-active raptors such as Barn owl.
References
- ↑ Kennerley, R.; Lavrenchenko, L. (2016). "Mastomys awashensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T45060A22425623. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T45060A22425623.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/45060/22425623. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Meheretu Yonas; Leirs, H (2019). Raptor perch sites for biological control of agricultural pest rodents. In: Nyssen J., Jacob, M., Frankl, A. (Eds.). Geo-trekking in Ethiopia's Tropical Mountains - The Dogu'a Tembien District. SpringerNature. ISBN 978-3-030-04954-6. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030049546.
- ↑ Meheretu Yonas; Kiros Welegerima; Sluydts, V; Bauer, H; Kindeya Gebrehiwot; Deckers, J; Makundi, R; Leirs, H (2015). "Reproduction and survival of rodents in crop fields: the effects of rainfall, crop stage and stone-bund density". Wildlife Research 42 (2): 158–164. doi:10.1071/WR14121.
- ↑ Meheretu Yonas; Kiros Welegerima; Deckers, S; Raes, D; Makundi, R; Leirs, H (2010). "Farmers' perspectives of rodent damage and management from the highlands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia". Crop Protection 29 (6): 532–539. doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2009.12.006.
- Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1361–1362. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13001467.
Wikidata ☰ Q1970364 entry
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