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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Mus
--> SUBGENUS Nannomys
SPECIES Mus (Nannomys) haussa
| Author: | Thomas and Hinton, 1920. | | Citation: | Novit. Zool., 27: 319. | | Common Name: | Hausa Mouse | | Type Locality: | Nigeria, Farniso. | | Distribution: | Senegal (Duplantier and Granjon, 1992) and S Mauritania through Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, S Niger (Dobigny et al., 2002b), and Benin to N Nigeria; limits undocumented. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Nannomys. Body size, pelage color and pattern, and other morphological traits of M. haussa are very similar to those of M. tenellus (F. Petter, 1963c, 1972a; Rosevear, 1969), and F. Petter (1969) considered combining them; relationship between the two needs to be assessed by systematic revision of the M. tenellus complex. Chromosomal data (2n = 31-34, FN = 38) reported by Dogigny et al. (2002), Jotterand (1972), and Matthey (1967a). Ghana population reviewed by Grubb et al. (1998). Abundant in owl pellets reported from S Mali (Meinig, 2000). |
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