Dendromus oreas Osgood, 1936

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 : 543

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scientific name	Dendromus oreas Osgood, 1936
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Dendromus oreas Osgood, 1936 . Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 20:236.

TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon, Southwest Prov., southwest side of Mt. Cameroon, 9000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Possibly endemic to mountains of extreme E Cameroon in the Southest Prov.; recorded from Mt. Cameroon and Mt. Kupe and Mt. Manenguba in the massif about 70 mi northeast of Mt. Cameroon ( Osgood, 1936; Rosevear, 1969).

COMMENTS: Although originally described by Osgood (1936) as a distinct species, oreas was later included in D. mesomelas ( Bohmann, 1942; Rosevear, 1969; Misonne, 1974). Our study of the holotype supports Osgood's (1936) view that oreas may be related to D. lunaris (= kivu ), but is not a geographic sample of D. insignis . Judged from the wide range in length of upper molar row that Rosevear (1969:472) recorded for oreas , his Cameroon sample is either extremely variable, which is unusual in this group, or consists of two species.

References

Bohmann, L., von. 1942. Die Gattung Dendromus A. Smith. Versuch einer naturlichen Gruppierung (Ergebnisse der Ostafrika-Reise 1937 Uthmoller-Bohmann. VIII). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 139: 33 - 53.

Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Osgood, W. H. 1936. New and imperfectly known small mammals from Africa. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 20: 217 - 256.

Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604.