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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Otomyinae
--> GENUS Otomys
SPECIES Otomys burtoni
Author: | Thomas, 1918. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 2: 210. | Common Name: | Burton’s Vlei Rat | Type Locality: | Cameroon, Cameroon Mountains, 7000 ft. | Distribution: | Highlands of NW Cameroon; range limits unknown. | Comments: | Retained as a species until submerged within the pan-African rassenkreis of O. irroratus (Bohmann, 1952; Petter, 1982). As noted by Thomas (1918b), among the smallest species of Otomys, resembling nubilus (here = O. tropicalis) in Kenya. |
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