HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Mus
--> SUBGENUS Nannomys
SPECIES Mus (Nannomys) callewaerti
Author: | Thomas, 1925. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 15: 668. | Common Name: | Callewaert’s Mouse | Type Locality: | S Dem. Rep. Congo, Kasaï-Occidental, Kananga (= Luluabourg), 610 m. | Distribution: | Recorded only from NE and C Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1998), S and W Dem. Rep. Congo; limits unknown. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Nannomys. Thomas described this species as a member of the genus Hylenomys, which is now united with Mus (Hill and Carter, 1941; Misonne, 1965a) as a synonym of Nannomys. It is the largest-bodied of any of the African Mus (F. Petter and Matthey, 1975), has ivory incisors and very large auditory bullae, and in external features resembles M. triton, which misled Hatt (1940a) into treating callewaerti as a subspecies of triton. Misonne (1965a) summarized distributional and other information. |
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