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--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Otomyinae
--> GENUS Parotomys
SPECIES Parotomys littledalei
Author: | Thomas, 1918. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 2: 205. | Common Name: | Littledale’s Whistling Rat | Type Locality: | South Africa, Northern Cape Province, Bushmanland, Kenhardt, Tuin. | Distribution: | N Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces, South Africa, to S and W Namibia. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Type species of Liotomys, named as a subgenus of Parotomys by Thomas (1918b) and viewed as a genus by Roberts (1951). Sister species to P. brantsii according to phylogenetic interpretation of allozymic data (Meester et al., 1992; Taylor et al., 1989). Meester et al. (1986) retained all species-group taxa as subspecies. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
molopensis Roberts, 1933 namibensis Roberts, 1933
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