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--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Dasymys
SPECIES Dasymys sua
Author: | W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Dierckx, Colyn, Leirs, and E. Verheyen, 2003. | Citation: | Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belgique, Biol., 73: 41. | Common Name: | Tanzanian Dasymys | Type Locality: | E Tanzania, Mbete (06°52’S, 37°41’E, as per W. Verheyen et al., 2003:41), near Morogoro, on flanks of the Uluguru Range (Kitundu Forest), 1540 m. | Distribution: | Known only from upland plains in the Morogoro region of EC Tanzania, 400-1600 m (W. Verheyen et al., 2003). | Comments: | Member of the D. incomtus species complex. Defined by discriminant function analyses using craniometric traits as well as complete mtDNA cytochrome b sequences in comparison with samples of D. rufulus and the bentleyae portion of the D. incomtus species complex (W. Verheyen et al., 2003). |
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