Togo mouse

Togo mouse
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Binomial name
Leimacomys buettneri
Matschie, 1893

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.

  1. ^ Van der Straeten & Schlitter (2016). "Leimacomys buettneri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2021.

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