Acomys mullah Thomas, 1904

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 : 566

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scientific name	Acomys mullah Thomas, 1904
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Acomys mullah Thomas, 1904 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 14:103.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia .

DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia and Somalia; limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: brockmani .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Acomys . Petter (1983) recognized brockmani as a valid species, suggesting it might be referable to mullah , which is the older name. These two forms are characterized by large molar rows, also diagnostic of lowei , which Petter implicitly associated with both mullah and brockmani as species. Ellerman (1941) also recognized mullah and brockmani as species, but Setzer (1975) arranged lowei as a subspecies of A. cahirinus, Dieterlen (in litt.) treated it as a synonym of A. cineraceus , and Setzer (1975) treated mullah and brockmani as subspecies of A. dimidiatus . Yalden et al. (1976) listed mullah as a synonym of A. cahirinus .