Ethiopian amphibious rat
[2] N. plumbeus is considered to be the most aquatically adapted African murid; its unusually large brain is thought to be one consequence of this lifestyle.[3] The species is considered to be critically endangered or possibly extinct, since its habitat has been severely damaged by overgrazing and monoculture.There are other rodents adapted to live in wetlands such as marsh rice rat or the European water vole.[4] The rat belongs to the family Muridae and has the largest cranial capacity of any African muroid ever sampled.Currently, East African highland small mammals are being studied by Julian Kerbis Peterhans at the Field Museum in Chicago Illinois, USA.
Conservation statusCritically endangeredIUCN 3.1Scientific classificationEukaryotaAnimaliaChordataMammaliaRodentiaMuridaeOsgoodBinomial nameinsectivoroussemiaquaticrodentmonotypicLesser Abay RiverEthiopiaextinctseverely damagedovergrazingmarsh rice ratEuropean water voleIUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesBucknell UniversityTumblrMurinaeChordateEuarchontogliresAfrican wading rat (C. goslingi)ZelotomysHildegarde's broad-headed mouse (Z. hildegardeae)Woosnam's broad-headed mouse (Z. woosnami)CrunomysCelebes shrew-rat (C. celebensis)Northern Luzon shrew-rat (C. fallax)Mindanao shrew-rat (C. melanius)Katanglad shrew-mouse (C. suncoides)SommeromysSommer's Sulawesi rat (S. macrorhinos)Mindoro climbing rat (A. mindorensis)Fea's tree rat (C. chiropus)Millard's rat (D. millardi)LeopoldamysSundaic mountain leopoldamys (L. ciliatus)Diwangkara's long-tailed giant rat (L. diwangkarai)Edwards's long-tailed giant rat (L. edwardsi)Millet's leopoldamys (L. milleti)Neill's long-tailed giant rat (L. neilli)Long-tailed giant rat (L. sabanus)Mentawai long-tailed giant rat (L. siporanus)NiviventerAnderson's white-bellied rat (N. andersoni)Brahma white-bellied rat (N. brahma)Cameron Highlands white-bellied rat (N. cameroni)Chinese white-bellied rat (N. confucianus)Coxing's white-bellied rat (N. coninga)Dark-tailed tree rat (N. cremoriventer)Oldfield white-bellied rat (N. culturatus)Smoke-bellied rat (N. eha)Large white-bellied rat (N. excelsior)Montane Sumatran white-bellied rat (N. fraternus)Chestnut white-bellied rat (N. fulvescens)Limestone rat (N. hinpoon)Lang Bian white-bellied rat (N. langbianis)Narrow-tailed white-bellied rat (N. lepturus)White-bellied rat (N. niviventer)Long-tailed mountain rat (N. rapit)Tenasserim white-bellied rat (N. tenaster)SaxatilomysPaulina's limestone rat (S. paulinae)Ohiya rat (S. ohiensis)TonkinomysDaovantien's limestone rat (T. daovantieni)DasymysGlover Allen's dasymys (D. alleni)Crawford-Cabral's shaggy rat (D. cabrali)Fox's shaggy rat (D. foxi)African marsh rat (D. incomtus)Montane shaggy rat (D. montanus)Angolan marsh rat (D. nudipes)Robert's shaggy rat (D. robertsii)West African shaggy rat (D. rufulus)Rwandan shaggy rat (D. rwandae)Tanzanian shaggy rat (D. sua)EchiothrixCentral Sulawesi echiothrix (E. centrosa)Northern Sulawesi echiothrix (E. leucura)Indian bush rat (G. ellioti)MyomorphaAnomalomyidaeDipodoideaDipodidaeAllactaginaeAllactagaAllactodipusPygeretmusScarturusCardiocraniinaeCardiocraniusSalpingotulusSalpingotusDipodinaeEremodipusJaculusStylodipusParadipodiniParadipusEuchoreutinaeEuchoreutesSimimyidaeSminthidaeSicistaZapodidaeEozapusNapaeozapusMuroideaArmintomyidaeArmintomysPlatacanthomyidaePlatacanthomysTyphlomysSpalacidaeMyospalacinaeEospalaxMyospalax