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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Otomyinae
--> GENUS Otomys
SPECIES Otomys dollmani
| Author: | Heller, 1912. | | Citation: | Smithsonian Misc. coll., 59: 5. | | Common Name: | Dollman’s Vlei Rat | | Type Locality: | Kenya, Matthews Range, Mount Gargues (Urguess), 7000 ft. | | Distribution: | Known only from the type locality. | | Comments: | Described as a subspecies of orestes and afterwards swept under either O. irroratus (Bohmann, 1952; Petter, 1982) or O. tropicalis (Misonne, 1974; Musser and Carleton, 1993). Hollister (1919) noted dollmani’s differentiation from both orestes and tropicalis on Mount Kenya (notably its smaller size, lack of postauricular patches, six-laminated M3, flatter skull profile, as verified with USNM type series) and long ago elevated it to species. We agree. |
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