Otomys barbouri Lawrence and Loveridge 1953

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 : 1525

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11335783

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Otomys barbouri Lawrence and Loveridge 1953
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Otomys barbouri Lawrence and Loveridge 1953 View in CoL

Otomys barbouri Lawrence and Loveridge 1953 View in CoL , Bull. Mus . Comp. Zool., Harvard, 110: 63.

Type Locality: Uganda, Mount Elgon, Kaburomi, 10,500 ft; 01º14′N, 34º31′E. GoogleMaps

Vernacular Names: Barbour's Vlei Rat.

Distribution: Afro-alpine zone of Mount Elgon, ca. 3500-4300 m, Uganda and Kenya.

Discussion: Lawrence and Loveridge (1953) emphasized the contrasts between their new species and O. (Anchotomys) anchietae , but Misonne (1974) reassigned it as a synonym of the latter, an opinion erroneously followed by others ( Honacki et al., 1982; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Musser and Carleton, 1993). Trenchant differences from O. anchietae explicated by Dieterlen and Van der Straeten (1992), who reinstated barbouri as species and suggested its closer relationship to O. occidentalis and O. lacustris ; morphological and morphometric discrimination amplified by Taylor and Kimurai (2001). Knowledge of altitudinal distribution, autecology, and natural history vastly improved by the studies of Clausnitzer (2000, 2001; Clausnitzer and Kityo, 2001).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Otomys

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Otomys barbouri Lawrence and Loveridge 1953

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

Otomys barbouri

Lawrence and Loveridge 1953: 63
1953
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