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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Dendromurinae
--> GENUS Dendromus
SPECIES Dendromus mystacalis
| Author: | Heuglin, 1863. | | Citation: | Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol., Halle, 30(2): suppl. 5. | | Common Name: | Chestnut African Climbing Mouse | | Type Locality: | Ethiopia, Baschlo region (Ellerman et al., 1953, offered additional comments). | | Distribution: | Much of C and E Africa (G. M. Allen and Loveridge, 1942; Ansell, 1978, 1989; Ansell and Dowsett, 1988; Delany, 1975; Lawrence and Loveridge, 1953; Smithers, 1971; Smithers and Lobao Tello, 1976; Smithers and Wilson, 1979; Stanley et al., 1998b), including S Sudan (Setzer, 1956) and Ethiopia (Lavrenchenko, 2000; Yalden et al., 1996), as far south as Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1966b, 1998) and E South Africa (de Graaff, 1997ee; Skinner and Smithers, 1990:308; Taylor, 1998); range based also on specimens in AMNH, BMNH, FMNH, and MCZ. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Upperparts are bright ochraceous-buff without a stripe in most samples, a faint strip in others; underparts range from white (usual) to buffy gray, the coloration typical of N Dem. Rep. Congo and AMNH series from Angola (ansorgei, as per Thomas and Wroughton, 1905; Hill and Carter, 1941; and Hayman, 1963b). Those samples without a faint middorsal stripe closely resemble D. messorius but are smaller and usually have buffy gray underparts (always white in messorius). This species is a morphological miniature of southern African D. mesomelas, the two are probably close phylogenetic allies, and both constitute one of the two species-pairs occurring in southern Africa (Avery, 1998). Morphological variation within this widely ranging species should be investigated to determine whether more than one species is represented. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
acraeus Wroughton, 1909
ansorgei Thomas and Wroughton, 1905
capitis Heller, 1912
jamesoni Wroughton, 1909
lineatus Heller, 1911
nairobae Osgood, 1910
ochropus Osgood, 1910
pallescens Osgood, 1910
pongolensis Roberts, 1931
uthmoelleri Bohmann, 1939
whytei Wroughton, 1909
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