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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Dendromurinae
--> GENUS Dendromus
SPECIES Dendromus oreas
Author: | Osgood, 1936. | Citation: | Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 20: 236. | Common Name: | Cameroon African Climbing Mouse | Type Locality: | Cameroon, Southwest Prov., southwest side of Mt Cameroon, 9000 ft (2743 m). | Distribution: | Mt Cameroon, Mts Kupe and Manenguba in the massif about 70 mi (113 km) NE Mt Cameroon (Eisentraut, 1963, 1968; Osgood, 1936; Rosevear, 1969), and possibly in mtns of extreme E Cameroon. | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | Although described by Osgood (1936) as a species, oreas was later included in D. mesomelas (Bohmann, 1942; Misonne, 1974; Rosevear, 1969). Study of the holotype supports Osgood’s (1936) view that oreas is related to what he called D. lunaris (=D. nyasae) and is not a geographic outlier of either the montane East African D. insignis or southern African D. mesomelas (see those accounts). Judged from the wide range in molar length that Rosevear (1969:472) recorded for oreas, his Cameroon sample is either extremely variable, which is unusual in the genus, or consists of two species. |
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