Forest thicket rat

The forest thicket rat, Grammomys dryas, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It was described by Oldfield Thomas in 1907 and is now placed in the genus Grammomys; the parentheses around the authority in the taxonomic record show that it was first described in a different genus. The species is recorded from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda in central Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, meaning mountain forest that stays damp through the year. The International Union for Conservation of Nature assesses it as Least Concern under version 3.1 of its Red List system. The source article is brief and cites only the Musser and Carleton treatment of the Muroidea in Mammal Species of the World, so little else about its biology is documented there.