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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Deomyinae
--> GENUS Acomys
--> SUBGENUS Acomys
SPECIES Acomys (Acomys) nesiotes
| Author: | Bate, 1903. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 11: 565. | | Common Name: | Cyprus Spiny Mouse | | Type Locality: | Cyrus, Kernyia Hills, near Dikomo. | | Distribution: | Cyprus; see in Bates (1994). | | Status: | IUCN – Data Deficient. | | Comments: | Subgenus Acomys. Originally described as a species, subsequently listed as a subspecies of A. dimidiatus (Ellerman, 1941) or included in A. cahirinus (Corbet, 1978c), but again treated as a species (Spitzenberger, 1978b). Standard karyotype (2n=38) described by Zahavi and Wahrman (1956) and Zima et al. (1999b); chromosomal banding pattern similar to the Turkish A. cilicicus and Egyptian A. cahirinus (Zima et al., 1999b). This association corroborated by mtDNA cytochrome b sequences (Barome et al., 2001a) and breeding experiments (Frynta and Sádlová, 1998); the Crete, Cyprus, and Turkish species join A. cahirinus in a monophyletic clade to the exclusion of that formed by samples of A. dimidiatus or other species of Acomys sampled. See accounts of A. cilicicus and A. minous for additional discussion. |
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