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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Deomyinae
--> GENUS Acomys
--> SUBGENUS Acomys
SPECIES Acomys (Acomys) seurati
| Author: | Heim de Balsac, 1936. | | Citation: | Bull. Biol. Fr. Belg., 21: 356, Fig. 6(4); 389, Fig. 15(15). | | Common Name: | Seurat’s Spiny Mouse | | Type Locality: | S Algeria, Iniker, A’hagger (Ahaggar Mtns; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Ranck, 1968). | | Distribution: | Recorded only from mountains of S Algeria, in Hoggar, Mouydir and Tassili n’Ajjers (Bates, 1994; Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991). | | Comments: | Subgenus Acomys. Described as a species by Heim de Balsac, but listed as a synonym of A. cahirinus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Musser and Carleton (1993); however, the karyotype is different (2n = 38, FN = 68 compared with 2n = 36, FN = 68 for A. cahirinus) and the two can be distinguished by molar morphology (Denys et al., 1994:237). Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska (1991) provided references to distributional records, ecology, and morphology of the species. |
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