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--> GENUS Parotomys
SPECIES Parotomys brantsii
| Author: | A. Smith, 1834. | | Citation: | South African Quart. J., Ser. 2, 2: 150. | | Common Name: | Brants’s Whistling Rat | | Type Locality: | South Africa, Northern Cape Province, Little Namaqualand, "toward the mouth of the Orange River." | | Distribution: | Western, Eastern, and Northern Cape provinces, South Africa, to SW Botswana and SE Namibia (De Graaff, 1981:160). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Although Port Nolloth, purportedly as restricted by Thomas and Schwann (1904:178), is usually cited as the type locality of P. brantsii (e.g., Ellerman et al., 1953; Meester et al., 1986), a careful reading of Thomas and Schwann indicates that they had actually associated one of Smith’s cotypes with a series collected at Klipfontein, a place some 50 miles inland from Port Nolloth. The notion that the type locality was "restricted" to Port Nolloth apparently stems from an inadvertent indication in Roberts (1951). A future revisor of the species should clarify this matter. Meester et al. (1986) recognized deserti and rufifrons as subspecies in addition to the nominate form. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
deserti Roberts, 1933
luteolus (Thomas and Schwann, 1904)
pallida (Wagner, 1841)
rufifrons (Rüppell, 1842)
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