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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Thallomys
SPECIES Thallomys shortridgei
| Author: | Thomas and Hinton, 1923. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1923: 492. | | Common Name: | Shortridge’s Thallomys | | Type Locality: | South Africa, Western Cape Province, Louisvale, S bank of Orange River. | | Distribution: | South Africa; known only from south bank of Orange River from about Upington west to Goodhouse, Little Namaqualand, in Western Cape Province; limits unknown. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Thomas and Hinton's (1923b) acute description points to a distinctive species distinguished by a diagnostic combination of chromatic and cranial traits (especially the small bullae). Ellerman (1941) treated shortridgei as a species, its distinction has been recognized by others (Musser and Carleton, 1993; Roberts, 1951; Van Rooyen in De Graff, 1978), and despite recent checklists where it is listed as a subspecies of either T. paedulcus (Meester et al., 1986) or T. nigricauda (Skinner and Smithers, 1990), the name identifies a valid species (our study of the holotype and specimens in MCZ). |
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