Grant's rock mouse or Grant's rock rat (''Aethomys granti'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found only in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

. It is sometimes included in the genus ''Micaelamys''. Its natural

habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...

s are

subtropical or tropical dry shrubland Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a terrestrial biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The biome is dominated by grass and/or shrubs located in semi-arid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and t ...

and rocky areas.

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Endemic fauna of South Africa Aethomys Mammals of South Africa Mammals described in 1908 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Murinae-stub