Steatomys parvus Rhoads 1896
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Steatomys parvus Rhoads 1896
Steatomys parvus Rhoads 1896, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia: 529.
Type Locality: Ethiopia, northern shore Lake Turkana, Rusia (see Yalden et al., 1996).
Vernacular Names: Tiny African Fat Mouse.
Synonyms: Steatomys aquilo Thomas and Hinton 1923; Steatomys athi Heller 1910; Steatomys kalaharicus Roberts 1932; Steatomys loveridgei Thomas 1919; Steatomys minutus Thomas and Wroughton 1905; Steatomys muanzae Kershaw 1923; Steatomys swalius Thomas 1926; Steatomys thomasi Setzer 1956; Steatomys umbratus Thomas 1926.
Distribution: East and Southern Africa—S and EC Sudan (holotypes of aquilo and thomasi; USNM specimens), S Ethiopia, and Somalia; south through Kenya (Hollister, 1919; specimens in AMNH), Uganda (Delany, 1975; AMNH 119143), and Tanzania (Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951); to SW Angola (Coetzee, 1977 a; Crawford-Cabral, 1998; AMNH 81949), NE Namibia, NW Botswana (Smithers, 1971), W Zambia (Ansell, 1978), and W Zimbabwe (Smithers and Wilson, 1979).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Distribution and conservation status discussed as a savanna woodland species by Mugo et al. (1995). The single Ethiopian record was first listed as S. pratensis (Yalden et al., 1976) and later reidentified as S. parvus (Yalden et al., 1996). Coetzee (1977 a) omitted thomasi from his review; Setzer’s (1956) large type series matches the range of variation in what is now regarded as S. parvus. Coetzee (1977 a) included the holotype and only specimen of aquilo (EC Sudan, Jebel Marra) in S. parvus, although Thomas and Hinton (1923 a) believed it to be related to West African S. cuppedius. Southern African records reviewed and mapped by de Graaff (1997 gg), who included an isolate in KwaZulu-Natal, but Taylor (1998) reallocated those specimens to S. krebsii. Steatomys parvus has not been found south of NE Namibia and NW Botswana, nor have we located any samples between S Sudan and the eastern range limits of West African S. cuppedius (see account).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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- Scientific name authorship
- Rhoads
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Nesomyidae
- Genus
- Steatomys
- Species
- parvus
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Steatomys parvus Rhoads, 1896 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Rhoads, S. N. 1896. Mammals collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his expedition to Lake Rudolf, Africa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1896: 517 - 546.
- Yalden, D. W., M. J. Largen, D. Kock and J. C. Hillman. 1996. Catalogue of the mammals of Ethiopia and Eritrea. 7. Revised checklist, zoogeography and conservation. Tropical Zoology, 9: 73 - 164.
- Hinton, M. A. C. 1923. On the voles collected by Mr. G. Forrest in Yunnan; with remarks upon the genera Eothenomys and Neodon and upon their allies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 11: 145 - 162.
- Thomas, O. 1919. On small mammals from " Otro Cerro " north-eastern Rioja, collected by Sr. E. Budin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 3: 489 - 500.
- Thomas, O., and R. C. Wroughton. 1905. On a second collection of mammals obtained by Dr. W. J. Ansorge in Angola. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 16: 169 - 178.
- Setzer, H. W. 1956. Mammals of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 106 (3377): 447 - 587.
- 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.
- Delany, M. J. 1975. The rodents of Uganda. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 165 pp.
- 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.
- Coetzee, C. G. 1977 a. Genus Steatomys. Part 6.8. Pp. 1 - 4, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
- Crawford-Cabral, J. 1998. The Angolan rodents of the superfamily Muroidea: An account of their distribution. Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, Estudos, Ensaios e Documentos, 161: 223 pp.
- Smithers, R. H. N. 1971. The mammals of Botswana. Museum Memoir, National Museums of Rhodesia, Salisbury, 4: 1 - 340.
- Ansell, W. F. H. 1978. The mammals of Zambia. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Chilanga, 126 pp.
- Smithers, R. H. N., and V. J. Wilson. 1979. Checklist and atlas of the mammals of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Museum Memoir, National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, Salisbury, 9: 1 - 193.
- Mugo, D. N., A. T. Lombard, G. N. Bronner, C. M. Gelderblom, and G. A. Benn. 1995. Distribution and protection of endemic or threatened rodents, lagomorphs, and macrosceledids in South Africa. South African Journal of Zoology, 30: 115 - 126.
- Yalden, D. W., M. J. Largen, and D. Kock. 1976. Catalogue of the mammals of Ethiopia. 2. Insectivora and Rodentia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 8 (1): 1 - 118.
- Thomas, O., and M. A. C. Hinton. 1923 a. On the mammals obtained in Darfur by the Lynes-Lowe Expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1923: 247 - 271.