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Lophuromys verhageni

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Muridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Rodentia

Subfamily
  
Deomyinae

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Lophuromys verhageni (Verhagen's brush-furred rat) is a rodent belonging to the genus Lophuromys. It is found between 2600 and 3050 m on Mount Meru in Tanzania. The species is named after Ronald Verhegen for his contributions to the ecology of small mammals of Tanzania.

L. verhageni has a fairly large overall size. It has a large but slender skull with weak supraorbital ridges, and a short tail. The species was split from the species L. flavopunctatus in 2002

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Lophuromys verhageni Wikipedia