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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Hybomys
--> SUBGENUS Typomys
SPECIES Hybomys (Typomys) trivirgatus
| Author: | Temminck, 1853. | | Citation: | Esquisses Zool. sur la Côte de Guine: 159. | | Common Name: | West African Hybomys | | Type Locality: | Ghana (= Gold Coast), Dabocrom. | | Distribution: | From Sierra Leone west to SW Nigeria west of the Niger River (Carleton and Robbins, 1985:990). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Typomys. Part of the murine fauna endemic to West Africa (see account of Grammomys buntingi). Morphology, phylogenetic affinities, and geographic range reviewed by Carleton and Robbins (1985). Grubb et al. (1998) reviewed populations in Ghana and Sierra Leone. Neither Rosevear (1969) nor Carleton and Robbins (1985) uncovered evidence for subspecific differentiation of pearsei from SW Nigeria. |
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