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Blick's Grass Rat (Arvicanthis blicki)

Blick's Grass Rat (Arvicanthis blicki)

Blick's Grass Rat (Arvicanthis blicki)


Class: Mammalia
Family: Muridae
Common Name: Blick's Grass Rat
Genus: Arvicanthis
Species Name: blicki

About The Blick's Grass Rat

This species is endemic to the plateau on the eastern side of the Ethiopian Rift Valley at elevations of 2,500 to 4,050 m asl (Yalden 1976; Yalden 1996; M. Corti pers. comm.). The range of this species is less than 20,000 km²

Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: Lavrenchenko, L. 2008. Arvicanthis blicki. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <www.iucnredlist.org>

Trips Where Observed

Africa: Egypt and Ethiopia

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