Species
Otomys helleri
Description
Otomys helleri Frick, 1914
The species occupies Afroalpine habitats in the Bale and Arsi Mts. The populations from Ankober-Debre Sina (west of the Rift Valley), Chercher Mts. (eastern Ethiopia) and Bonke-Chencha (southern Ethiopia) were assigned to this species based on cranial morphology (Taylor et al. 2011), but need to be confirmed genetically.
Taxonomy
Otomys helleri is a species. It belogs to the Muridae family.
