Otomys saundersiae Roberts 1929

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 : 1529

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11335813

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/48CE1DCB-5902-4823-0418-2B2416A49556

treatment provided by

Guido

scientific name

Otomys saundersiae Roberts 1929
status

 

Otomys saundersiae Roberts 1929 View in CoL

Otomys saundersiae Roberts 1929 View in CoL , Ann. Transvaal Mus ., 13: 115.

Type Locality: South Africa, Eastern Cape Province, Grahamstown.

Vernacular Names: Saunders' Vlei Rat.

Synonyms: Otomys karoensis Roberts 1931 .

Distribution: Isolated populations in Western Cape, Eastern Cape, and Free State provinces, South Africa, and in Lesotho.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Roberts (1929) named saundersiae as a subspecies of tugelensis (= O. angoniensis ) but later (1951) raised it to full species, as commonly recognized in the literature (e.g., Corbet and Hill, 1991; De Graaff, 1981; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1953; Misonne, 1974; Meester et al., 1986). The form karoensis , in Western Cape Province, has been variously treated as a species (G. M. Allen, 1939; Bohmann, 1952; Roberts, 1931; Taylor et al., 1993) or as a distinctive subspecies of O. saundersiae ( Roberts, 1951; Taylor et al., in prep.). Taylor et al. (1993, as karoensis ; in prep.) provided morphological bases for discrimination of O. saundersiae from O. irroratus , evaluated geographic and nongeographic variation, and contrasted G-banded karyotypes. The apparent rarity of O. saundersiae populations in the region of its type locality, Eastern Cape Province, is discussed by Taylor et al. (in prep.).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Otomys

Loc

Otomys saundersiae Roberts 1929

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

Otomys saundersiae

Roberts 1929: 115
1929
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF