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SPECIES Acomys (Acomys) nesiotes

Author:Bate, 1903.
Citation:Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 11: 565.
Common Name:Cyprus Spiny Mouse
Type Locality:Cyrus, Kernyia Hills, near Dikomo.
Distribution:Cyprus; see in Bates (1994).
Status:IUCN – Data Deficient.
Comments:Subgenus Acomys. Originally described as a species, subsequently listed as a subspecies of A. dimidiatus (Ellerman, 1941) or included in A. cahirinus (Corbet, 1978c), but again treated as a species (Spitzenberger, 1978b). Standard karyotype (2n=38) described by Zahavi and Wahrman (1956) and Zima et al. (1999b); chromosomal banding pattern similar to the Turkish A. cilicicus and Egyptian A. cahirinus (Zima et al., 1999b). This association corroborated by mtDNA cytochrome b sequences (Barome et al., 2001a) and breeding experiments (Frynta and Sádlová, 1998); the Crete, Cyprus, and Turkish species join A. cahirinus in a monophyletic clade to the exclusion of that formed by samples of A. dimidiatus or other species of Acomys sampled. See accounts of A. cilicicus and A. minous for additional discussion.
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