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--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Otomyinae
--> GENUS Otomys
SPECIES Otomys denti
| Author: | Thomas, 1906. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 18: 142. | | Common Name: | Dent’s Vlei Rat | | Type Locality: | Uganda, east slope of Mount Ruwenzori, Mubuku Valley, 6000 ft (as restricted by Moreau et al., 1946:420). | | Distribution: | Intermittently found in EC Africa—Ruwenzori Mtns, SW Uganda and contiguous Dem. Rep. Congo; through the Virunga volcanoes, E Dem. Rep. Congo (Kivu), Rwanda, and Burundi; to the Nyika Plateau, N Malawi and NE Zambia, and the Usambara and Uluguru mountains, EC Tanzania. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | The form kempi was treated as a distinct species (e.g., Ellerman, 1941; Thomas, 1918b), as originally described (Dollman, 1915), and later reduced to subspecific rank by Bohmann (1952), as observed currently (Ansell, 1978; Delany, 1975; Misonne, 1974; Musser and Carleton, 1993). Confirmation of its status and that of sungae, isolated in the Nyika Plateau and Eastern Arc Mtns, deserves critical evaluation. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
kempi Dollman, 1915
sungae Bohmann, 1943
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