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Lophuromys (Lophuromys) dudui W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Dierckx, and E. Verheyen 2002

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Lophuromys (Lophuromys) dudui W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Dierckx, and E. Verheyen 2002

Lophuromys (Lophuromys) dudui W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Dierckx, and E. Verheyen 2002, Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg., Biol., 72: 147.

Type Locality: N Dem. Rep. Congo, Orientale (Haut-Zaïre), right bank Congo River near Kisangani, Masako Forest Reserve, "rainforest of the Tshoporiver," 440 m, 00EE36'N, 25EE13'E (W. Verheyen et al., 2002:147).

Vernacular Names: Dudu's Brush-furred Rat.

Distribution: Dem. Rep. Congo, lowland tropical evergreen rainforest on right side of Congo River from Kisangani area east to W foothills of the Western Rift Mtns, from the Garamba-Blukwa-Djugu region in NE Dem. Rep. Congo to Irangi in the south (details and localities provided by W. Verheyen et al., 2002).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 1189-1531 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1205, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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  • Verheyen, W., J. L. J. Hulselmans, T. Dierckx, and E. Verheyen. 2002. The Lophuromys flavopunctatus Thomas 1888 species complex: A craniometric study, with the description and genetic characterization of two new species (Rodentia-Muridae-Africa). Bulletin de L'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie, 72: 141 - 182.