Cricetomys kivuensis Lönnberg 1917

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 : 933

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11328717

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scientific name

Cricetomys kivuensis Lönnberg 1917
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Cricetomys kivuensis Lönnberg 1917 View in CoL

Cricetomys kivuensis Lönnberg 1917 View in CoL , K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockholm, 58 (art. 2): 75.

Type Locality: Dem. Rep. Congo, Masisi.

Vernacular Names: Kivu Giant Pouched Rat.

Distribution: Mountains of easternmost Dem. Rep. Congo (Kivu), S Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi; limits unknown.

Discussion: Although Genest-Villard (1967) retained kivuensis as a subspecies of C. emini , she considered its differentiation as marginal. Compared with C. emini , examples of kivuensis are larger, their skulls fully as robust as the biggest C. ansorgei ; dorsal color is fuscous gray (not the bright browns of emini ) and the underparts are dull grayish-white, weakly demarcated from the dorsum (pure white and cleanly delineated in emini ); and fur is long, its texture soft and luxurient (close-cropped and slightly hispid in emini ). The union of such disparate morphologies under one species deserves unambiguous demonstration.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Nesomyidae

Genus

Cricetomys

Loc

Cricetomys kivuensis Lönnberg 1917

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

Cricetomys kivuensis

Lönnberg 1917: 75
1917
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