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--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Otomyinae
--> GENUS Myotomys
SPECIES Myotomys sloggetti
| Author: | Thomas, 1902. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 10: 311. | | Common Name: | Rock Karroo Rat | | Type Locality: | South Africa, N Western Cape Province, Deelfontein, north of Richmond. | | Distribution: | Subalpine and alpine zones, above 2000 m, in Eastern Cape Province, Lesotho, and W KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa (Lynch and Watson, 1992:Fig. 1; Taylor, 1998:Fig. 78). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as Otomys sloggetti. | | Comments: | Viewed as closely related to O. unisulcatus (Bohmann, 1952; Roberts, 1951; Taylor et al., 1989; Thomas, 1918b), but details of sperm morphology question the closeness of their relationship (Bernard et al., 1991). Taxonomy, distributional records, and ecology reviewed by Lynch and Watson (1992) and Lynch (1994); karyotypic and genetic data and comparisons supplied by Contrafatto et al. (1992a). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
basuticus Roberts, 1929
jeppei Roberts, 1929
robertsi (Hewett, 1927)
turneri (Wroughton, 1907)
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