Lophuromys sikapusi (Temminck, 1853)

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer, 2014, African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon, Zoosystema 36 (3), pp. 647-690 : 672

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2014n3a6

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6502AA63-E05D-FFBD-19B5-FB40FB9B4CCC

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Lophuromys sikapusi (Temminck, 1853)
status

 

Lophuromys sikapusi (Temminck, 1853) View in CoL

Mus sikapusi Temminck, 1853: 160 .

Lasiomys afer Peters, 1866: 409 View in CoL .

Lophuromys afer View in CoL – Peters 1874: 234.

Lophuromys sikapusi – Allen 1939: 395.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Ghana, Dabracom.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — ZFMK: 91.223.

Morphological characters

This specimen was caught by Fülling at 2050 m asl. Its external measurements ( Table 6) fit within the range of other L. sikapusi of the CVL ( Denys et al. 2009). The skull is broken and its posterior part is missing.

Subfamily GERBILLINAE Gray, 1825

ZFMK

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Lophuromys

Loc

Lophuromys sikapusi (Temminck, 1853)

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer 2014
2014
Loc

Lophuromys afer

Tullberg 1893
1893
Loc

Lasiomys afer

Peters 1866: 409
1866
Loc

Mus sikapusi

Temminck 1853: 160
1853
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