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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Malacomys
SPECIES Malacomys longipes
| Author: | Milne-Edwards, 1877. | | Citation: | Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 6, 12: 10. | | Common Name: | Common Malacomys | | Type Locality: | Gabon, Gaboon River (vicinity of Ogooue, Gabon; see Rautenbach and Schlitter, 1978:414). | | Distribution: | From SE Nigeria, C and S Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (including Bioko; Eisentraut, 1965), and Gabon eastward through Republic of Congo, S Central African Republic, Dem. Rep. Congo to S Sudan, Uganda, and Rwanda; also to the south in NW Zambia and NE Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1998). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Karyotype of sample from Côte d’Ivoire is 2n = 48, FN = 52 (Fna = 48), with the autosomal complement consisting of all telocentric pairs except for a single pair of small metacentrics, a composition regarded by Viegas-Péquignot et al. (1983) to be close to the presumed ancestral complement for murines. A sample from Gabon exhibits an identical karyotype (Lecompte, 2003). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
australis Ansell, 1958
centralis De Winton, 1897
wilsoni Thomas, 1916
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