Graphiurus parvus (True, 1893)

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 parvus (True, 1893)
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Graphiurus parvus (True, 1893) . Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 16(95A):601.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Tana River, between the coast and Hameye .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Mali, Sudan, N Uganda and Kenya (see Hollister, 1919), Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania (see Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951). In W Africa see Rosevear (1969).

SYNONYMS: brockmani, dollmani, foxi , internus, personatus (see Allen, 1939, for citations).

COMMENTS: Schütter et al. (1985) discussed taxonomic problems associated with the small dormice occurring in savannahs, scrub, and woodlands of west, east, and southern Africa. Three species of this grade are provisionally recognized here; G. kelleni , G. olga , and G. parvus .

References

Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.

Hollister, N. 1919. East African mammals in the United States National Museum. Part II. Rodentia, Lagomorpha, and Tubulidentata. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 99 (2): 1 - 184.

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.