Tachyoryctes daemon Thomas, 1909

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 686

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DOI

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scientific name

Tachyoryctes daemon Thomas, 1909
status

 

Tachyoryctes daemon Thomas, 1909 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 4:545.

TYPE LOCALITY: N Tanzania, Mt Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded from N Tanzania (Mt Kilimanjaro, Mt Meru and other highlands between Kilimanjaro and Lake Victoria and between the lake and Rwanda); limits unknown.

COMMENTS: Records are from Hollister (1919) and Swynnerton and Hayman (1951), who also listed daemon as a species.

Hollister, N. 1919. East African mammals in the United States National Museum. Part II. Rodentia, Lagomorpha, and Tubulidentata. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 99 (2): 1 - 184.

Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20 (6): 274 - 392.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Tachyoryctes