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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Dephomys
SPECIES Dephomys eburneae
| Author: | Heim de Balsac and Bellier, 1967. | | Citation: | Mammalia, 31: 157. | | Common Name: | Ivory Coast Dephomys | | Type Locality: | Côte d’Ivoire, Lamto. | | Distribution: | Records are from Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia (specimens in USNM); may occur in SW Ghana (Grubb et al., 1998). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Originally described as a subspecies of defua (see discussion in Rosevear, 1969), but shown to be a separate species by Van der Straeten (1984). Part of the murine fauna endemic to West Africa (see account of Grammomys buntingi). Chromosomal data from Côte d’Ivoire sample reported by Tranier and Dosso (1979). |
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