What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Coucha Rat been recorded?

Mastomys natalensis occurrence evidence comes from 6,522 records in 34 countries and territories, from 1905 to 2023. Most records come from Guinea.

Coucha Rat
Coucha Rat — Photo (display-sized rendition): Kelly, et al · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
MammaliaRodentiaMuridaeMastomys

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

6,522 records across 34 countries and territories, 1905–2023.

Mastomys natalensis · GBIF taxon key 2438911

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: July.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. 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.

Records over time

19052023

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Coucha Rat has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Coucha Rat. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Guinea 1,036
Sierra Leone 753
Uganda 683
Ethiopia 645
Tanzania 576
Namibia 509
Sudan 228
Niger 214
Benin 211
Zambia 191
Kenya 169
Senegal 169
DR Congo 167
Zimbabwe 143
Mali 131
Nigeria 131
South Africa 120
Malawi 92
Ghana 73
Botswana 63
South Sudan 50
Angola 43
Mozambique 36
Côte d'Ivoire 31
Mauritania 27
Cameroon 8
Chad 8
Central African Republic 7
Congo 2
Morocco 2
Burkina Faso 1
Burundi 1
Guinea-Bissau 1
Liberia 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.