Dephomys cf. defua ( Miller, 1900 )

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Sylla, Morlaye, Douno, Mory, Kadjo, Blaise, Lalis, Aude & Monadjem, Ara, 2025, Annotated checklist of rodents from a biodiversity hotspot, Mount Nimba (West Africa), Zoosystema 47 (27), pp. 617-689 : 640

Dephomys cf. defua ( Miller, 1900)

Mus defua Miller, 1900: 635 .

REMARKS

The specimen DM13172 has been sequenced and belongs to clade B that corresponds well to Dephomys cf. defua as defined above ( Fig. 7). No external measurements were available for this specimen. DM13172 was a pregnant female, but its skull measurements look small compared to other Nimba specimens. There are no clear morphological differences in the skin characters between D. cf. eburneae and D. cf. defua . In size we noticed a difference in the hindfoot length, which could be smaller in D. cf. defua ( Table 7 ). On specimen MNHN-ZM-2013-169, the nasal is long and wide, the fronto-parietal crests rectilinear and moderately marked, and the braincase rounded.In ventral view, the incisor foramen is long and enters in the middle of the toothrows, the palate is wide and molar rows oblique. The tympanic bullae are oval. The molecularly typed specimen from Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea harbor a large t3 on the upper M1/ and a t3 bis which is sometimes visible. But the large variability observed for this character does not allow for a reliable specific identification. The dental characters are very similar to those observed in genetically typed specimens attributed to D. cf. eburneae .