Grammomys dolichurus (Smuts 1832)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1324

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scientific name

Grammomys dolichurus (Smuts 1832)
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[Mus] dolichurus Smuts 1832 , Enumer. Mamm. Capensium: 38.

Type Locality: South Africa, near Cape Town.

Vernacular Names: Common Grammomys.

Synonyms: Grammomys angolensis Hill and Carter 1937 ; Grammomys arborarius (True 1892) ; Grammomys baliolus ( Osgood 1910) ; Grammomys discolor (Thomas 1910) ; Grammomys elgonis (Thomas 1910) ; Grammomys insignis ( Dollman 1911) ; Grammomys littoralis ( Heller 1912) ; Grammomys polionops ( Osgood 1910) ; Grammomys surdaster ( Thomas and Wroughton 1908) ; Grammomys tongensis Roberts 1931 .

Distribution: From Nigeria east to S Ethiopia; then south through N Dem. Rep. Congo, Uganda ( Delany, 1975; Clausnitzer and Kityo, 2001, discussed distribution and habitat on Ugandan slopes of Mt Elgon), Kenya ( Hollister, 1919), Tanzania ( Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951; Grimshaw et al., 1995, distribution on Mt Kilimanjaro; Stanley et al., 2002, presence in Gonja Forest Reserve), and C and S Malawi ( Ansell and Dowsett, 1988) to N and E South Africa (from Limpopo Province along coast through KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces to Port Elizabeth; de Graaff, 1981, 1997 i; Taylor, 1998), E Zimbabwe, and Mozambique ( Smithers and Lobao Tello, 1976); and west through Zambia (except in northeast on Nyika Plateau; Ansell, 1978) to Angola ( Crawford-Cabral, 1998); limits of geographic range unresolved.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Number of scientific names reflects morphological and chromosomal variation correlated with geography and suggests more than one species is represented ( Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1984; Meester et al., 1986); the complex requires careful revision. For example, specimens of true dolichurus from South Africa have duller pelage and more inflated bullae than animals from East and West Africa; should these prove to be diagnostic specific differences, the northern populations should be identified as G. surdaster . The Ethiopian records are based upon a specimen from Kefa (in USNM) and one documented by Duckworth et al. (1993), but not those recorded by Yalden et al. (1976), which represent other species ( Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1984).

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Grammomys

Loc

Grammomys dolichurus (Smuts 1832)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Mus] dolichurus

Smuts 1832: 38
1832
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