Zena's brush-furred rat (Lophuromys zena) is a rodent in the family Muridae, placed in the genus Lophuromys of the subfamily Deomyinae, the brush-furred rats of Africa. It was described by G. Dollman in 1909 from a holotype collected on the east side of the Aberdare Range near Nyeri in Kenya, at about 2,900 metres, and the Mammal Diversity Database records Kenya as its range and the Afrotropic as its biogeographic realm. Its standing is unsettled. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it as a living species, but the IUCN Red List treats the name as a synonym of the yellow-spotted brush-furred rat (Lophuromys flavopunctatus), while the protein database UniProt lists it as a species of rat, and the Mammal Diversity Database notes that the related name rubecula is included under either this species or Lophuromys chrysopus for now.
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Muridae, Taxa Source Mammal Diversity Database: Lophuromys zena
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Lophuromys zenaCountry distributionQuote, Country distribution
Country distribution Kenya
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1. Mammal Diversity Database: Lophuromys zena
Mammal Diversity DatabaseSpecies status
Species status Living
IUCN Red List status
IUCN Red List status Not Evaluated
Child Taxon Of: Muridae, Taxonomy, family
Family: Muridae
In Group: Rodents And Lagomorphs, Taxonomy
Order: Rodentia
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