Graphiurus rupicola (Thomas and Hinton, 1925)

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 : 765

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scientific name	Graphiurus rupicola (Thomas and Hinton, 1925)
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Graphiurus rupicola (Thomas and Hinton, 1925) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1925:232.

TYPE LOCALITY: Namibia, Karibib, 3842 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Namibia (see Thomas and Hinton, 1925) and NW South Africa (see Shortridge and Carter, 1938), in a narrow strip from Karibib and Mt. Brukaros, Namibia, south to Port Nolloth and Eenriet, NW Cape Prov., South Africa.

SYNONYMS: australis, kaokoensis, montosüs (see Roberts, 1951).

COMMENTS: Ellerman et al. (1953) and Genest-Villard (1978) listed rupicola as a subspecies of G. platyops , but Roberts (1951) recognized it as a distinct species, a position followed here based on study of specimens.

References

Genest-Villard, H. 1978. Revision systematique du genre Graphiurus (Rongeurs, Gliridae). Mammalia, 42 (4): 391 - 426.

Roberts, A. 1951. The mammals of South Africa. Trustees of The mammals of South Africa book fund, Johannesburg, 700 pp.

Shortridge, G. C., and T. D. Carter. 1938. A new genus and new species and subspecies of mammals from Little Namaqualand and the north-west Cape Province; and a new subspecies of Gerbillus paeba from the eastern Cape Province. Annals of the South African Museum, 3 (2): 281 - 291.

Thomas, O., and M. A. C. Hinton. 1925. On mammals collected in 1923 by Captain G. C. Shortridge during the Percy Sladen and Kaffrarian Museum Expedition to South-West Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1925: 221 - 246.