Graphiurus lorraineus Dollman, 1910

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Myoxidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 763-770 : 764

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Graphiurus lorraineus Dollman, 1910 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5:285.

TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire, Welle (Uele) River, Molegbwe, south of Setema Rapids .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone, Liberia ( Kuhn, 1965), Ivory Coast ( Aellen, 1965; Mt Nimba Reserve see Heim de Balsac and Lamotte, 1958), Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria ( Happold, 1987), Cameroon (Robbins and Schütter, 1981; Schütter et al., 1985), Gabon, N Angola ( Hayman, 1963b), Zaire ( Hatt, 1940a; Petter, 1967a; Verheyen and Verschuren, 1966), Uganda, SW Tanzania ( Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951); perhaps Gambia. In W Africa see Rosevear (1969).

SYNONYMS: collaris, haedulus, spurrelli .

COMMENTS: Discussion of Gambian specimens and possible synonymy with G. coupeii incertae sedis given in Schütter et al. (1985).

References

Aellen, V. 1965. Les rongeurs de basse Cote-d'Ivoire (Hystricomorpha et Gliridae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 72 (37): 755 - 767.

Happold, D. C. D., M. Happold, and J. E. Hill. 1987. The bats of Malawi. Mammalia, 51: 337 - 414.

Hatt, R. T. 1940 a. Lagomorpha and Rodentia other than Sciuridae, Anomaluridae and Idiuridae, collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 76 (9): 457 - 604.

Hayman, R. W. 1963 b. Mammals from Angola, mainly from the Lunda District. Publicacoes Culturais Museu do Dundo, 66: 84 - 139.

Heim de Balsac, H., and M. Lamotte. 1958. La reserve naturelle integrale du mont Nimba, Part 4 (15): Mammiferes rongeurs (Muscardinides et Murides). Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire, 53: 339 - 357.

Kuhn, H. - J. 1965. A provisional check-list of the mammals of Liberia. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 46 (5): 321 - 340.

Petter, F. 1967 a. Contribution a la faune du Congo (Brazzaville). Mission A. Villiers et A. Descarpentries. LV. Mammiferes rongeurs (Muscardinidae et Muridae). Bulletin de l'Institut Fondatmental d'Afrique Noire, 29 A (2): 815 - 820.

Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604.

Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20 (6): 274 - 392.

Verheyen, W. N., and J. Verschuren. 1966. Rongeurs et lagomorphes. Exploration du Parc National de la Garamba Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo, Bruxelles, 50: 1 - 66.