Togo mouse | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Subfamily: | Leimacomyinae Musser & Carleton, 2005 |
Genus: | Leimacomys Matschie, 1893 |
Species: | L. buettneri
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Binomial name | |
Leimacomys buettneri Matschie, 1893
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The Togo mouse (Leimacomys buettneri), also known as Büttner's African forest mouse or the groove-toothed forest mouse, is a unique muroid rodent known from only two specimens taken from near the type locality of Bismarckburg, near Yege, Togo, in 1890. Its genus is monotypic.