MSW Scientific Names

Dendromus lovati



• Author........ : de Winton, 1900.
  
• Citation...... : Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1899:986 [1900].
  
• Common Name... : Lovat's Climbing Mouse
  
• Distribution.. :Endemic to Ethiopian Plateau where it is recorded from 2500-3550 m (Rupp, 1980ref; Yalden et al., 1976ref).
  
• Type Locality. :Ethiopia, Managasha, near Addis Ababa.
  
• Comments...... : A grassland species differing from other members of Dendromus in its apparently strictly terrestrial habits (Yalden et al., 1976ref; Yalden, 1988ref).