| 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]
- ^ 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. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
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