Arvicanthus niloticus - #1732

Grassland and bush of Sahelian and northern Sudanian savannas, steppe, and semidesert in subsaharan N Africa, primarily in anthropogenic habitats, from Senegal (north of Gambia River), S Mauritania eastward through Mali, Burkina Faso, C and S Niger, and C and S Chad to Sudan and western half and EC portion of Ethiopia; north along the Nile Valley through Egypt; south through NE Dem. Rep. Congo, Uganda, S Burundi, and W Tanzania into E Zamibia, where the population is isolated from the nearest one in SW Tanzania. There is a record from N Malawi, and the species also occurs in SW Arabian Peninsula. The only truly Saharan record is from SE Algeria (Hoggar).