Crawford-Cabral's shaggy rat

Crawford-Cabral's shaggy rat, also called Crawford-Cabral's shaggy marsh rat (Dasymys cabrali), is a species of shaggy marsh rat endemic to north-eastern Namibia, near the Okavango River. It was formally described in 2003 by Walter Verheyen, Jan Hulselmans, Theo Dierckx, Marc Colyn, Herwig Leirs and Erik Verheyen, in a study of the systematics of the genus Dasymys that used skull measurements and genetic evidence, selected a neotype and described three new taxa. The article lists the species among the mammals of Namibia. It is a short stub that gives no account of the animal's appearance, diet, ecology or conservation status, so none of that is claimed here.