Dasymys nudipes (Peters, 1870)

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 : 589

Dasymys nudipes (Peters, 1870) . Jorn. Sei. Math., Phys. Nat., Lisboa, ser. 1, 3:126.

TYPE LOCALITY: Angola, Huilla .

DISTRIBUTION: S Angola, SW Zambia, NE Namibia, N Botswana; limits unknown, possibly also occurs in NW Zimbabwe.

COMMENTS: Treated by Allen (1939), Hill and Carter (1941), and Roberts (1951) as a species, but included in D. incomtus by Ellerman (1941) and most later writers of lists (e.g., Meester et al., 1986; Misonne, 1974). Crawford-Cabral (1983) recorded sympatry between D. nudipes and D. incomtus in Angola, and our survey of series from Chitau identified as D. nudipes by Hill and Carter (1941:98) revealed it consists of both nudipes and incomtus , qualitative observations supported by morphometric analyses ( Crawford-Cabral and Pacheco, 1989). Lukolela and Luluabourg, Zaire, have been included within range of D. nudipes ( Crawford-Cabral, 1983) , but specimens from there (in the American Museum of Natural History) are examples of D. incomtus . The holotype and only specimen of edsoni, described as subspecies of D. nudipes from Lukolela, middle Zaire ( Hatt, 1934b), is an incomtus , not a nudipes .