| Rhabdomys Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent
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| Rhabdomys pumilio | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Arvicanthini |
| Genus: | Rhabdomys Thomas, 1916 |
| Type species | |
| Mus pumilio | |
| Species | |
Rhabdomys is a largely Southern African genus of muroid rodents slightly larger than house mice. They are known variously as striped or four-striped mice or rats. Traditionally the genus has been seen as a single species, Rhabdomys pumilio, though modern evidence on the basis of karyotype and mtDNA analysis suggests that it comprises two or more species and subspecies.[1] Dorsally Rhabdomys species display four characteristic black longitudinal stripes on a paler background.[2]
- ^ Castiglia R., Solano E., Makundi R. H., Hulselmans J., Verheyen E., Colangelo P. (2011). "Rapid chromosomal evolution in the mesic four-striped grass rat Rhabdomys dilectus (Rodentia, Muridae) revealed by mtDNA phylogeographic analysis". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 50 (2): 165–172. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2011.00627.x.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Mills, Gus & Hes, Lex (1997). The Complete Book of Southern African Mammals. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. ISBN 978-0-947430-55-9.