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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Otomyinae
--> GENUS Otomys
SPECIES Otomys barbouri
| Author: | Lawrence and Loveridge, 1953. | | Citation: | Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard, 110: 63. | | Common Name: | Barbour’s Vlei Rat | | Type Locality: | Uganda, Mount Elgon, Kaburomi, 10,500 ft; 01º14′N, 34º31′E. | | Distribution: | Afro-alpine zone of Mount Elgon, ca. 3500-4300 m, Uganda and Kenya. | | Comments: | Lawrence and Loveridge (1953) emphasized the contrasts between their new species and O. (Anchotomys) anchietae, but Misonne (1974) reassigned it as a synonym of the latter, an opinion erroneously followed by others (Honacki et al., 1982; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Musser and Carleton, 1993). Trenchant differences from O. anchietae explicated by Dieterlen and Van der Straeten (1992), who reinstated barbouri as species and suggested its closer relationship to O. occidentalis and O. lacustris; morphological and morphometric discrimination amplified by Taylor and Kimurai (2001). Knowledge of altitudinal distribution, autecology, and natural history vastly improved by the studies of Clausnitzer (2000, 2001; Clausnitzer and Kityo, 2001). |
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