Stenocephalemys ruppi Van der Straeten and Dieterlen 1983

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 : 1502

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Stenocephalemys ruppi Van der Straeten and Dieterlen 1983
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Stenocephalemys ruppi Van der Straeten and Dieterlen 1983 View in CoL

Stenocephalemys ruppi Van der Straeten and Dieterlen 1983 View in CoL , Ann. Mus . R. Afr. C., 237: 121.

Type Locality: Ethiopia, Bonke, north of Bulta, 2800-3200 m.

Vernacular Names: Rupp's Stenocephalemys.

Distribution: Ethiopia; known only from Bonke and Bulta in the Gamo Gofa region of SW Ethiopia, 2700-3200 m ( Rupp, 1980; Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1983; Yalden and Largen, 1992).

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable as Myomys ruppi .

Discussion: Originally described as a species of Praomys based on material collected by Rupp (1980), who illustrated the skull as " Praomys albipes , stenocephaler Typ" (p. 92). Musser and Carleton (1993) wrote that " M. ruppi combines morphological features of both M. albipes and Stenocephalemys , an observation reinforced by morphometric analyses ( Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1983). Were it not for the long tail of M. ruppi (a trait shared with M. albipes ), the species could as easily be included within Stenocephalemys . " In their canonical analysis of ruppi , albipes , and S. griseicauda, Van der Straeten and Dieterlen (1983) derived scores for ruppi that fell between those representing the other two species, but portrayed ruppi as being overall more closely related to S. griseicauda . Fadda and Corti (2000) disagreed with that assessment, noting that in their study " ruppi shares centroid size values and shape changes that are typical of M. albipes ," indicated they have unpublished evidence suggesting divergence within "Ethiopian Myomys " (presumably albipes ), and considered the relationship of the Bonke population as unresolved. We await their results but meanwhile all available data about ruppi support its transfer from Myomys (= Myomyscus ) to Stenocephalemys .

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Stenocephalemys

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Stenocephalemys ruppi Van der Straeten and Dieterlen 1983

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

Stenocephalemys ruppi

Van der Straeten and Dieterlen 1983: 121
1983
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