Saccostomus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Nesomyidae
- Genus
- Saccostomus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Saccostomus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Saccostomus
Saccostomus is a genus of rodent in the family Nesomyidae, or pouched mice. They have pouches in their cheeks. The genus contains the following species:
- South African pouched mouse (Saccostomus campestris)
- Mearns's pouched mouse (Saccostomus mearnsi)
Saccostomus in languages:
- Bokmål
- Korthalehamsterrotter
- English
- Pouched Mice
- Finnish
- hamstraajahiiret
- Polish
- torbomysz
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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