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A new species of the rodent genus Hylomyscus from Angola, with a distributional summary of the H. anselli species group (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini)

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Carleton, Michael D., Banasiak, Rebecca A., Stanley, William T. (2015): A new species of the rodent genus Hylomyscus from Angola, with a distributional summary of the H. anselli species group (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini). Zootaxa 4040 (2): 101-128, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.2.1

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