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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Dendromurinae
--> GENUS Steatomys
SPECIES Steatomys cuppedius
| Author: | Thomas and Hinton, 1920. | | Citation: | Novit. Zool., 27: 318. | | Common Name: | Dainty African Fat Mouse | | Type Locality: | Nigeria, Farniso (= Panisau), near Kano, 1700 ft (518 m). | | Distribution: | West Africa, in Senegal (Duplantier and Granjon, 1992), NC Nigeria, and SC Niger; range unresolved. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Revised by Swanepoel and Schlitter (1978), who regarded cuppedius as a distinct species, as did Rosevear (1969), not a member of S. parvus as per Coetzee (1977a). Thomas and Hinton (1923a) thought the holotype of aquilo from EC Sudan was related to S. cuppedius. Whether West African cuppedius represents a separate species or segment of the widely ranging S. parvus has yet to be resolved. Specimens identified as S. cuppedius from SE Ghana by Yeboah (1982-1988) are examples of Uranomys ruddi (Grubb et al., 1998:189). |
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