The Mount Kilimanjaro vlei rat (Otomys zinki) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae, found in north-eastern Tanzania on Mount Kilimanjaro. Its classification has shifted over time: Bohmann described it in 1943 as Otomys typus zinki, kept it under the Ethiopian vlei rat in 1952, and Musser and Carleton moved it under the Afroalpine vlei rat in 2005, before Taylor and colleagues in 2011 considered it a distinct species. The article warns that the species is known from only one location, Mount Kilimanjaro, and that although it occurs in a protected area, fires, climate change and habitat loss could lead it to extinction in a short span of time.
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It is found in north-eastern Tanzania, on Mount Kilimanjaro
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threats such as fires, climate change and habitat loss could lead the species to extinction
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It is found in north-eastern Tanzania, on Mount Kilimanjaro
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