Sabuni's brush-furred rat

Sabuni's brush-furred rat (Lophuromys sabunii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae, the large family that holds the Old World rats and mice. Within it the species belongs to the subfamily Deomyinae and the genus Lophuromys, the brush-furred rats of Africa. It was described in 2007 by W. N. Verheyen and colleagues, in a paper that characterised the Kilimanjaro population of Lophuromys aquilus and named five new species of the genus. The holotype was collected at Mbizi on the Ufipa Plateau in Tanzania, at the rim of a forest about 1,750 metres up, and Tanzania is the only country where the species has been recorded. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in the Afrotropical realm, treats it as a living species known from the wild, and lists its IUCN Red List status as not evaluated.