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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Cricetomyinae
--> GENUS Cricetomys
SPECIES Cricetomys kivuensis
| Author: | Lönnberg, 1917. | | Citation: | Kungl. Svenska Vet-Akad. Handl., Stockholm, 58(art. 2): 75. | | Common Name: | Kivu Giant Pouched Rat | | Type Locality: | Dem. Rep. Congo, Masisi. | | Distribution: | Mountains of easternmost Dem. Rep. Congo (Kivu), S Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi; limits unknown. | | Comments: | Although Genest-Villard (1967) retained kivuensis as a subspecies of C. emini, she considered its differentiation as marginal. Compared with C. emini, examples of kivuensis are larger, their skulls fully as robust as the biggest C. ansorgei; dorsal color is fuscous gray (not the bright browns of emini) and the underparts are dull grayish-white, weakly demarcated from the dorsum (pure white and cleanly delineated in emini); and fur is long, its texture soft and luxurient (close-cropped and slightly hispid in emini). The union of such disparate morphologies under one species deserves unambiguous demonstration. |
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