Species
Mus harennensis
Description
Mus harennensis sp. nov.
It is a large-sized representative of the subgenus Nannomys. The dorsal pelage is dark olive-brownish. The bristles are grey with black tips; the guard hairs are grey at the base with rufous subterminal bands and black tips. Ventral pelage is greyish, the individual hairs grey at the base and tipped with white. The transition between dorsal and ventral coloration is conspicuous. Dorsal surface of the forefeet is brownish with sparse and short brown fur; digits are covering by longer whitish hairs; claws are white. Dorsal surface of the long hindfeet (longer than 15.8 mm) is greyish with sparse and short grey hairs with light tips; digits are long and slender with ungual tufts of hairs, which are grey basally and white in the terminal half, that exceed the white claws in length. The ears are blackish, inner surface with sparse and short dark hairs. The bicoloured tail is relatively long (longer than 54 mm), the dorsal caudal hairs are blackish in contrast to the nearly white ventral hairs.
Taxonomy
Mus harennensis is a species. It belogs to the Muridae family.
