Dendromus oreas Osgood 1936

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Nesomyidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 930-955 : 941

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11328753

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Dendromus oreas Osgood 1936
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Dendromus oreas Osgood 1936 View in CoL

Dendromus oreas Osgood 1936 View in CoL , Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 20: 236.

Type Locality: Cameroon, Southwest Prov., southwest side of Mt Cameroon, 9000 ft (2743 m).

Vernacular Names: Cameroon African Climbing Mouse.

Distribution: Mt Cameroon, Mts Kupe and Manenguba in the massif about 70 mi (113 km) NE Mt Cameroon ( Eisentraut, 1963, 1968; Osgood, 1936; Rosevear, 1969), and possibly in mtns of extreme E Cameroon.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Although described by Osgood (1936) as a species, oreas was later included in D. mesomelas ( Bohmann, 1942; Misonne, 1974; Rosevear, 1969). Study of the holotype supports Osgood’s (1936) view that oreas is related to what he called D. lunaris (= D. nyasae ) and is not a geographic outlier of either the montane East African D. insignis or southern African D. mesomelas (see those accounts). Judged from the wide range in molar length that Rosevear (1969:472) recorded for oreas , his Cameroon sample is either extremely variable, which is unusual in the genus, or consists of two species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Nesomyidae

Genus

Dendromus

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Dendromus oreas Osgood 1936

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

Dendromus oreas

Osgood 1936: 236
1936
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