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Blick's grass rat

Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Arvicanthis
Species:	A. blicki
Binomial name
*Arvicanthis blicki* Frick, 1914

Blick's grass rat (Arvicanthis blicki) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Ethiopia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

Lavrenchenko, L. 2004. Arvicanthis blicki. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 July 2007.
Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1287. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Aethomys–Chrotomys)

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordate
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae

Aethomys
Division

Aethomys
(Bush rats)

Apodemus
Division

Apodemus
(Old world
field mice)

Tokudaia
(Ryukyu spiny rats)

Arvicanthis
Division

Arvicanthis (Unstriped grass mice)	Abyssinian grass rat (A. abyssinicus) Sudanian grass rat (A. ansorgei) Blick's grass rat (A. blicki) Nairobi grass rat (A. nairobae) Neumann's grass rat (A. neumanni) African grass rat (A. niloticus) Guinean grass rat (A. rufinus)
Desmomys	Harrington's rat (D. harringtoni) Yalden's rat (D. yaldeni)
Lemniscomys (Striped grass mice)	Barbary striped grass mouse (L. barbarus) Bellier's striped grass mouse (L. bellieri) Griselda's striped grass mouse (L. griselda) Hoogstraal's striped grass mouse (L. hoogstraali) Senegal one-striped grass mouse (L. linulus) Buffoon striped grass mouse (L. macculus) Mittendorf's striped grass mouse (L. mittendorfi) single-striped grass mouse (L. rosalia) Rosevear's striped grass mouse (L. roseveari) typical striped grass mouse (L. striatus) Heuglin's striped grass mouse (L. zebra)
Mylomys	African groove-toothed rat (M. dybowskii) Ethiopian mylomys (M. rex)
Pelomys (Groove-toothed creek rats)	Bell groove-toothed swamp rat (P. campanae) Creek groove-toothed swamp rat (P. fallax) Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat (P. hopkinsi) Issel's groove-toothed swamp rat (P. isseli) least groove-toothed swamp rat (P. minor)
Rhabdomys	mesic four-striped grass rat (R. dilectus) four-striped grass mouse (R. pumilio)

Chrotomys
Division

Apomys	Luzon Cordillera forest mouse (A. abrae) Luzon Aurora forest mouse (A. aurorae) Mount Banahaw forest mouse (A. banahao) Mount Tapulao forest mouse (A. brownorum) Camiguin forest mouse (A. camiguinensis) Luzon montane forest mouse (A. datae) large Mindoro forest mouse (A. gracilirostris) Mount Apo forest mouse (A. hylocoetes) Mindanao montane forest mouse (A. insignis) Mount Irid forest mouse (A. iridensis) Mindanao lowland forest mouse (A. littoralis) Lubang forest mouse (A. lubangensis) Luzon giant forest mouse (A. magnus) small Luzon forest mouse (A. microdon) Mount Mingan forest mouse (A. minganensis) least forest mouse (A. musculus) long-nosed Luzon forest mouse (A. sacobianus) Sierra Madre forest mouse (A. sierrae) Luzon Zambales forest mouse (A. zambalensis)
Archboldomys	Mount Isarog shrew-mouse (A. luzonensis) Large Cordillera shrew-mouse (A. maximus)
Soricomys	Soricomys kalinga Soricomys leonardocoi Southern Cordillera shrew-mouse (S. montanus) Sierra Madre shrew-mouse (S. musseri)
Chrotomys (Luzon striped rats)	Isarog striped shrew-rat (C. gonzalesi) Mindoro striped rat (C. mindorensis) Sibuyan striped shrew-rat (C. sibuyanensis) blazed Luzon shrew-rat (C. silaceus) Luzon striped rat (C. whiteheadi)
Rhynchomys (Shrewlike rats)	Banahao shrew-rat (R. banahao) Isarog shrew-rat (R. isarogensis) Labo shrew-rat (R. labo) Mingan shrew-rat (R. mingan) Mount Data shrew-rat (R. soricoides) Tapulao shrew-rat (R. tapulao)

See also: Colomys–Golunda; Hadromys–Maxomys; Melasmothrix–Mus; Oenomys–Pithecheir; Pogonomys–Pseudomys; Rattus; Stenocephalomys–Xeromys; Otomys; Others

Taxon identifiers
Arvicanthis blicki	Wikidata: Q306689 Wikispecies: Arvicanthis blicki ARKive: arvicanthis-blicki CoL: 67S7Y EoL: 1179004 GBIF: 2438918 iNaturalist: 45669 IRMNG: 10592381 ITIS: 585156 IUCN: 2145 MDD: 1003043 MSW: 13001240 NCBI: 1890051 Open Tree of Life: 3608718 Xeno-canto: Arvicanthis-blicki

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