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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Heimyscus
SPECIES Heimyscus fumosus
| Author: | Brosset, Dubost, and Heim de Balsac, 1965. | | Citation: | Biologia Gabonica, 1: 154. | | Common Name: | Smokey Heimyscus | | Type Locality: | Gabon, Makokou. | | Distribution: | Recorded only from the type locality, S Cameroon (Robbins et al., 1980), SW Gabon (specimens in FMNH, USNM), Republic of Congo (Granjon, 1991), and S Central African Republic (F. Petter and Genest, 1970; Malcom and Ray, 2000). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Originally described as a species of Hylomyscus, but differs significantly from any species in that genus in morphological and chromosomal traits (Misonne, 1969; Robbins et al., 1980), ecology (Duplantier, 1989), and complete mtDNA cytochrome b sequences (Lecompte et al., 2002b). Chevret et al. (1994), however, suggested that the degree of nucleotide substitutions indicated fumosus could remain in Hylomyscus under subgenus Heimyscus. Chromosomal traits (2n = 40, FNa = 48) described by Lecompte (2003). |
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