Myomyscus angolensis

Myomyscus angolensis, the Angolan multimammate mouse, is a small rodent of the family Muridae found in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bocage described it in 1890 from Capangombe, in the interior of Mossamedes in Angola. Authorities disagree about its genus: it was long placed in Myomyscus, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility backbone still lists that name as accepted, while the English Wikipedia article places it in Mastomys, because the species appears more closely related to the multimammate mice of that genus. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and moist savanna. Some authors have treated Shortridge's multimammate mouse as a subspecies of this animal, and where its range meets that of the Natal multimammate mouse the two may live side by side or at different altitudes.