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Striped Grass Mice
''Lemniscomys'', sometimes known as striped grass mice or zebra mice, is a genus of murine rodents from Africa. Most species are from Sub-Saharan Africa; ''Barbary Striped Grass Mouse, L. barbarus'' is the only one found north of the Sahara.Jonathan Kingdon, Kingdon, J. (1997). ''The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals.'' pp. 212-213. They are generally found in grassy habitats, but where several species overlap in distribution there is a level of Niche differentiation, habitat differentiation between them. They are long, of which about half is tail, and weigh . The pelage pattern of the species fall into three main groups: The "true" zebra mice with distinct dark and pale stripes (''L. barbarus'', ''Hoogstal's Striped Grass Mouse, L. hoogstraali'' and ''Heuglin's Striped Grass Mouse, L. zebra''), the spotted grass mice with more spotty/interrupted stripes (''Bellier's Striped Grass Mouse, L. bellieri'', ''Buffoon Striped Grass Mouse, L. macculus'', ''Mittendorf's Striped Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pliocene
The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch (geology), epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58See the 2014 version of the ICS geologic time scale million years ago (Ma). It is the second and most recent epoch of the Neogene Period in the Cenozoic, Cenozoic Era. The Pliocene follows the Miocene Epoch and is followed by the Pleistocene Epoch. Prior to the 2009 revision of the geologic time scale, which placed the four most recent major glaciations entirely within the Pleistocene, the Pliocene also included the Gelasian Stage, which lasted from 2.59 to 1.81 Ma, and is now included in the Pleistocene. As with other older geologic periods, the Stratum, geological strata that define the start and end are well-identified but the exact dates of the start a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
