Species
Aethomys hindei
Description
Aethomys hindei (Thomas, 1902)
This species is distributed in the southern part of the Sudanian savanna belt from Cameroon to western Kenya. Genotyping of Ethiopian material revealed a separate genetic clade (also confirmed in neighbouring regions of South Sudan), sister to all other A. hindei from the rest of its distribution. In Ethiopia, it is known from the Sudanian savanna in the south-western part of the country. Three specimens collected at the River Gato, south of Gardula in 1912, in the Rift Valley (Bekele & Schlitter 1989) may represent A. kaiseri.
Taxonomy
Aethomys hindei is a species. It belogs to the Muridae family.
