Dendromus vernayi Hill and Carter 1937

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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scientific name

Dendromus vernayi Hill and Carter 1937
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Dendromus vernayi Hill and Carter 1937 View in CoL

Dendromus vernayi Hill and Carter 1937 View in CoL , Am. Mus. Novit., 913: 4.

Type Locality: Angola, Angolan Plateau, Chitau, 4930 ft (1502 m).

Vernacular Names: Vernay's African Climbing Mouse.

Distribution: Known only from the type locality ( Hill and Carter, 1941; Crawford-Cabral, 1986, 1998), EC Angola.

Conservation: IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: Hill and Carter (1941) described vernayi as a subspecies of D. mesomelas , an association which has not been questioned ( Bohmann, 1942; Crawford-Cabral, 1986; Misonne, 1974). Re-examination of the holotype and original series (in AMNH) reveals vernayi to be distinguished from mesomelas by its much smaller body size and strikingly shorter tail, buffy gray venter (white, often with pale buff in D. mesomelas ), much smaller skull, postorbital region not constricted (as narrow as interorbit in D. mesomelas ), shorter and wider rostrum, and longer molar rows relative to skull length. No morphological data supports its affiliation with D. mesomelas or with the much larger D. insignis . Externally, D. vernayi resembles D. mystacalis , which also occurs at Chitau, but that species is much smaller and recalls D. mesomelas in coloration and cranial conformation. While also morphologically distinct from D. nyasae and D. oreas , D. vernayi will likely prove to be phylogenetically allied to those species than to any other Dendromus .

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Nesomyidae

Genus

Dendromus

Loc

Dendromus vernayi Hill and Carter 1937

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

Dendromus vernayi

Hill and Carter 1937: 4
1937
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