Pelomys fallax Peters 1852

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 : 1436

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11335285

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scientific name

Pelomys fallax Peters 1852
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Pelomys fallax Peters 1852 View in CoL

Pelomys fallax Peters 1852 View in CoL , Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 17: 275.

Type Locality: Mozambique, Caya Dist., Zambezi River.

Vernacular Names: East African Pelomys.

Synonyms: Pelomys australis Roberts 1913 ; Pelomys concolor Heller 1912 ; Pelomys frater Thomas 1904 ; Pelomys insignatus Osgood 1910 ; Pelomys iridescens Heller 1912 ; Pelomys luluae Matschie 1926 ; Pelomys rhodesiae Roberts 1929 ; Pelomys vumbae Roberts 1946 .

Distribution: Savanna habitats from S Kenya ( Hollister, 1919) and SW Uganda ( Delany, 1975) through Tanzania ( Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951), E and S Dem. Rep. Congo, Angola ( Crawford-Cabral, 1998), Zambia ( Ansell, 1978), Malawi ( Ansell and Dowsett, 1988), and Mozambique ( Smithers and Lobao Tello, 1976), to E and NW Zimbabwe ( Smithers and Wilson, 1979) and N Botswana ( Smithers, 1971).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Appreciable variation in size and fur color exists between samples from Angola and Zambia and those from the rest of the geographic range of P. fallax , suggesting more than one species may be present in this complex. No extant records are from South Africa but the species occurred in KwaZulu-Natal more than 17,000 years before present when the region was covered with deciduous woodland instead of thornveld ( Avery, 1991). Southern African Subregion population reviewed by de Graaff (1981, 1997 a) and Skinner and Smithers (1990).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Pelomys

Loc

Pelomys fallax Peters 1852

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

Pelomys fallax

Peters 1852: 275
1852
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