Fig. 1. Skull of Nilopegamys plumbeus x 1 1/9Source: Osgood, Wilfred Hudson. 1928. A new genus of aquatic rodents from Abyssinia. Field Museum of Natural History Zoological series 12(15):185-189. Biodiversity Heritage Library: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2827398
Nilopegamys plumbeus. Drawn by L. L. Pray after a field study by L. A. Fuertes. Source: Osgood, Wilfred Hudson. 1928. A new genus of aquatic rodents from Abyssinia. Field Museum of Natural History Zoological series 12(15):185-189. Biodiversity Heritage Library: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2827395
Florida salt marsh voleJason Coates, an engineering equipment operator at Lower Swannee National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, holds an endangered salt marsh vole. The shy mammal is one of many small creatures in harm’s way if oil reaches the Big Bend area of Florida’s Gulf Coast.Source: USFWS: Also Imperiled by Oil