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--> GENUS Dasymys
SPECIES Dasymys rwandae
Author: | W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Dierckx, Colyn, Leirs, and E. Verheyen, 2003. | Citation: | Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belgique, Biol., 73: 45. | Common Name: | Rwandan Dasymys | Type Locality: | NW Rwanda, Virunga Volcanoes (Nyungwe Forest), Kinigi, 2250 m (01°26’S, 29°36’E, as per W. Verheyen et al., 2003). | Distribution: | Probably endemic to the Virunga Volcanoes forming eastern rim of the Rift Valley in Rwanda (W. Verheyen et al., 2003). | Comments: | Member of the D. incomtus species complex, and diagnosed by multivariate analyses of craniodental measurements and complete mtDNA cytochrome b sequences relative to examples of D. alleni and D. bentleyae (W.Verheyen et al., 2003). Specimens from mountains to the south in W Burundi are not D. rwandae but D. bentleyae judged from craniometric data. |
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