The Gotel Mountain soft-furred mouse (''Praomys obscurus'') or Gotel Mountain praomys, is a species of rodent in the family

Muridae The Muridae, or murids, are the largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing approximately 1,383 species, including many species of mice, rats, and gerbils found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia. The name Muridae come ...

. It is endemic to the Gotel Mountains in southeastern Nigeria. It occurs in fern-grassland, montane forest, along streams in forest, gallery forest, and swamp forest, at elevations of

above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''. The comb ...

. It is threatened by habitat loss ( deforestation), presumably caused by logging and the conversion of land to agricultural and other uses.

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Gotel Mountain soft-furred mouse The Gotel Mountain soft-furred mouse (''Praomys obscurus'') or Gotel Mountain praomys, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to the Gotel Mountains in southeastern Nigeria. It occurs in fern-grassland, montane forest, along ...

Mammals of West Africa Endemic fauna of Nigeria

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