What is Togo mouse?
{{Taxobox | name = Groove-toothed forest mouse | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | unknown | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Rodent]]ia | superfamilia = [[Muroidea]] | familia = [[Muridae]] | subfamilia = '''Leimacomyinae''' | subfamilia_authority = Musser, Carleton, 2005 | genus = '''''Leimacomys''''' | genus_authority = Matschie, 1893 | binomial = ''Leimacomys buettneri''}} The '''Togo mouse''' (or Büttner's African forest mouse or the Groove-toothed forest mouse, ''Leimacomys buettneri'') is a unique [[muroid rodent]]. It is known from only two specimens, which were taken near the [[wikt:locality|locality]] of Bismarckburg, near Yege, [[Togo]] in 1890. == Description and natural history == The entirety of known material for this species consists of a single poor quality dry skin, a fluid preserved animal, and a cranium and mandible. The cranium and mandible are from different animals. The material is deposited in the Zoologisches Museum of [[Humboldt University]] in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]. The head and body length is 118 mm with a tail of 37 mm. This tail is unusually short relative to the body length (ratio of 37%) and is considered an important diagnostic feature. The animal is dark to grey brown above and pale grey brown below. Ears are small and hairy. Feet are also somewhat hairy. The tail may be naked or slightly haired. [[Incisor]]s are shallowly grooved. The snout is long and wide, interorbital width broad, and [[zygomatic plate]] large (Musser and Carleton, 2005). Based upon skull morphology, the Togo Mouse is presumed to be [[insectivore|insectivorous]] (Dieterlen, 1976). Very little is known about the [[natural history|habits]] of this unusual mouse. == Classification == ''Leimacomys'' has been transferred back and forth between the [[Dendromurinae]] and the [[Murinae]] since its discovery. It most closely resembles ''[[Lophuromys]]'' which has been transferred to a newly erected [[Deomyinae]] on the basis of [[molecular phylogeny|molecular]] data