Afroalpine vlei rat

The afroalpine vlei rat (Otomys orestes) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae that the Wikipedia article serving as this entry's source describes as found in the high moorlands of Kenya. The article's taxonomy note explains that Musser and Carleton in 2005 treated several names as synonyms of it, among them Otomys thomasi, Thomas's vlei rat, which Osgood described as a species in 1910. Taylor and colleagues in 2011 then found that O. thomasi, O. zinki, the Mount Kilimanjaro vlei rat, and others are distinct from O. orestes. The article gives no measurements, diet, lifespan, population figure or conservation category, so those details are left blank here rather than guessed.