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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Mus
--> SUBGENUS Nannomys
SPECIES Mus (Nannomys) indutus
| Author: | Thomas, 1910. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5: 89. | | Common Name: | Desert Pygmy Mouse | | Type Locality: | N South Africa, Northern Cape Province, Molopo River, west of Morokwen. | | Distribution: | N South Africa, W Zimbabwe, Botswana, C and N Namibia (de Graaff, 1997n:143; Skinner and Smithers, 1990:264); also S Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1998). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Nannomys. Skinner and Smithers (1990) and Meester et al. (1986) discussed the morphological and chromosomal distinctions between M. indutus and M. minutoides. Skinner and Smithers (1990) also summarized biological data, and Meester et al. (1986) provided citations for synonyms. Definition of this species is ambiguous (Meester et al., 1986; Skinner and Smithers, 1990). Meester et al. (1986) included the Angolan sybilla in M. indutus, but our study of the holotype revealed that sybilla belongs with M. minutoides. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
deserti (Thomas, 1912)
pretoriae (Roberts, 1926)
valschensis (Roberts, 1926)
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