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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Aethomys
SPECIES Aethomys kaiseri
| Author: | Noack, 1887. | | Citation: | Zool. Jahrb. Syst., 2: 228. | | Common Name: | Kaiser’s Aethomys | | Type Locality: | Dem. Rep. Congo, Katanga Marungu. | | Distribution: | SW Uganda, S Kenya, Rwanda, S and E Dem. Rep. Congo, W and SW Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and NC Angola; range mostly derived from Davis (1975b). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Significance of regional morphological variation needs to be assessed by a systematic revision. Westernmost population is that in Angola (". . . the Cuanza-Luando Mesopotamia, the Cuango River and the Southern Lunda Province"; Crawford-Cabral, 1999:180), referred to as A. k. vernayi, which seems to be isolated from the primary range of A. kaiseri (Hill and Carter [1941] treated vernayi as a species); genetic intergradation between populations of vernayi and kaiseri has yet to be documented (Crawford-Cabral, 1998, 1999). Crawford-Cabral (1998) reviewed Angolan population, and Grimshaw et al. (1995) discussed Mt Kilimanjaro records. Cytogenetics (C- and G-banding) and complete mtDNA cytochrome b sequence of Zambian A. kaiseri characterized and constrasted with samples of A. chrysophilus by Castiglia et al. (2003b); see account of the latter. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
amalae Dollman, 1914
hintoni Hatt, 1934
manteufeli Matschie, 1911
pedester Thomas, 1911
turneri Heller, 1914
vernayi Hill and Carter, 1937
walambae Wroughton, 1907
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