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The Togo mouse, also known as Büttner's African forest mouse or the groove-toothed forest mouse (''Leimacomys buettneri''), is a unique muroid rodent known from only two specimens taken from near the type locality of Bismarckburg, near Yege, Togo, in 1890. Its genus is monotypic. == Description and natural history == The entirety of known material for this species consists of a single, poor-quality dry skin, a fluid-preserved animal, and a cranium and mandible. The cranium and mandible are from different animals. The material is deposited in the Zoologisches Museum of Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. The head and body length is with a tail of . This tail is unusually short relative to the body length (ratio of 37%) and is considered an important diagnostic feature. The animal is dark to grey brown above and pale grey brown below. Ears are small and hairy. Feet are also somewhat hairy. The tail may be naked or slightly haired. The incisors are shallowly grooved. The snout is long and wide, the interorbital width is broad, and the zygomatic plate is large).〔Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 ''in'' Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 〕 Based on skull morphology, the Togo mouse is presumed to be insectivorous.〔Dieterlen, F. 1976. Bemerkungen über ''Leimacomys büttneri'' Matschie, 1893 (Dendromurinae), Cricetidae, Rodentia). Säugetierkunde, 39:229-231. 〕 Very little is known about the habits of this unusual mouse. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Togo mouse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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