🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Rusty-bellied Brush-furred Rat live?

Lophuromys sikapusi has 2,515 records in 20 countries and territories, from 1880 to 2025. Most records come from Côte d'Ivoire.

Rusty-bellied Brush-furred Rat
Rusty-bellied Brush-furred Rat — No machine-readable author provided. Aranae assumed (based on copyright claims). / Public domain · source
AnimaliaChordataMammaliaRodentiaMuridaeLophuromys

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Côte d'Ivoire 962
Guinea 434
Liberia 336
DR Congo 118
Nigeria 86
Angola 73
Ghana 73
Sierra Leone 65
Congo 56
Central African Republic 55
Uganda 55
Rwanda 50
Gabon 42
Cameroon 32
Togo 32
Benin 24
Kenya 10
Niger 6
Tanzania 5
Mali 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.