Species
Saccostomus mearnsi
Description
Saccostomus mearnsi Heller, 1910
This species occurs in Somali-Maasai bioregion, from northernmost Tanzania across Kenya to southern Ethiopia and Somalia, South Sudan and eastern Uganda (Mikula et al. 2016). The precise distribution in South Sudan, Uganda and Somalia is unresolved. It has parapatric distribution with S. umbriventer in north-eastern Tanzania and south-western Kenya, where the two species could possibly meet, but evidence for such contact is missing. In Ethiopia, it was found in grasslands and acacia savanna in the southernmost part of the country.
Taxonomy
Saccostomus mearnsi is a species. It belogs to the Nesomyidae family.
