HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Delanymyinae
--> GENUS Delanymys
SPECIES Delanymys brooksi
Author: | Hayman, 1962. | Citation: | Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 65: 2-Jan. | Common Name: | Delany’s Swamp Mouse | Type Locality: | SW Uganda, Kigezi, near Kanaba, Echuya (or Muchuya) Swamp, 7500 ft (2286 m) (Hayman, 1962a). | Distribution: | Sedge swamps in bamboo and montane forest in SW Uganda, Dem. Rep. Congo (Kivu), Rwanda (Volcanos and Nyungwe forest), and Burundi (Kibira National Park; Peterhans Kerbis, in litt., 1992). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Available information on morphology, distribution, and ecology covered in Hayman (1962a, b, 1963a), W. Verheyen (1965b), Dieterlen (1969b), Delany (1975), and Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1983). |
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