|
HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Cricetomyinae
--> GENUS Cricetomys
SPECIES Cricetomys gambianus
| Author: | Waterhouse, 1840. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840: 2. | | Common Name: | Northern Giant Pouched Rat | | Type Locality: | Gambia, Gambia River. | | Distribution: | Subsaharan savanna belt (Sudan and Guinea) and forest edges, from Gambia and Senegal eastwards to NE Dem. Rep. Congo, S Sudan, and N Uganda. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | The range outlined here basically corresponds to Hinton’s (1919b) grouping of relatively small-bodied Cricetomys with gray, moderately long and hispid pelage. Morphological, behavioral, and ecological contrasts between C. gambianus proper and C. emini elucidated by Genest-Villard (1967) and Rosevear (1969). |
|
| Offspring: | Synonyms:
buchanani Thomas and Hinton, 1921
dichrurus Osgood, 1910
gambiensis Temminck, 1853
goliath (Ruppell, 1842)
grahami Hinton, 1919
langi Hatt, 1934
oliviae Dollman, 1911
servorum Hinton, 1919
|
|
|
