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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Dendromurinae
--> GENUS Dendromus
SPECIES Dendromus lovati
| Author: | de Winton, 1899. | | Actual Date: | 1900 | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1899: 986. | | Common Name: | Lovat’s African Climbing Mouse | | Type Locality: | Ethiopia, Managasha, near Addis Ababa. | | Distribution: | Ethiopian Plateau, 2500-3550 m (Rupp, 1980). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | The type species of Chortomys, reviewed as an Ethiopian endemic by Yalden and Largen (1992) and Yalden et al. (1996). A grassland species differing from other Dendromus in its terrestrial habits (Yalden, 1988; Yalden et al., 1976); sample statistics of external measurements provided by Sillero-Zubiri et al. (1995a). |
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