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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Aethomys
SPECIES Aethomys thomasi
| Author: | de Winton, 1897. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 20: 327. | | Common Name: | Thomas’s Aethomys | | Type Locality: | Angola, Galanga. | | Distribution: | Endemic to Central Plateau of Angola; see Crawford-Cabral, 1999:190). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | A morphologically distinctive Angolan endemic related to A. kaiseri and the "eastern African A. hindei-A. medicatus complex of species" (Crawford-Cabral, 1999:179). Although Crawford-Cabral (1986) suspected A. kaiseri to overlap with A. thomasi in the central highlands, he has recently shown the two species to have parapatric distributions in C Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1999), and outlined an hypothesis describing origin of A. thomasi within the context of zoogeographic origins and current distributions for other members of the A. kaiseri complex (Crawford-Cabral, 1999:191). |
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