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GBIF·9800308speciesAnimalia2,161 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyMuridae
  6. ›genusAcomys
Acomys cahirinus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Northeast African Spiny Mouse

Acomys cahirinus (É.Geoffroy, 1803)

Also calledAcomys d'Egypte (fra) · Agypten-Stachelmaus (deu) · Ägyptische Stachelmaus (deu)

First described in: Cat. Mam. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Paris p.195

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Acomys cahirinus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 9800308.