Dipodillus (Petteromys) bottai Lataste 1882
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Dipodillus (Petteromys) bottai Lataste 1882
Dipodillus (Petteromys) bottai Lataste 1882, Le Naturaliste (Paris), 4: 36.
Type Locality: Sudan, Sennar.
Vernacular Names: Botta's Dipodil.
Distribution: Recorded only from Sudan and Kenya.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Gerbillus bottai.
Discussion: Subgenus Petteromys. F. Petter (1975 b) listed harwoodi and bottai as species and considered luteolus as a synonym of D. campestris. Kock (1978) included luteolus and harwoodi in D. bottai. Lay (1983:339) claimed the holotype of harwoodi lacks an accessory tympanum but holotype of luteolus has an accessory tympanum, and cannot represent the same species. Lay had not examined the holotype of bottai and rendered the conclusion that "because of the middle ear characters one of the two forms listed by Kock (1978) cannot be synonymous, perhaps neither are." He preferred to regard D. bottai "as valid and monotypic pending revision," and listed harwoodi as a species and luteolus as a synonym of D. stigmonyx. Pavlinov et al. (1990) reviewed the species and discussed harwoodi, luteolus, and stigmonyx under D. bottai.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A2267A57FF8A65DA07E1D2E970F9422A (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/05C789B193BD3DAF0A3653C0BAF98BC7 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231540338 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lataste
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Dipodillus
- Species
- bottai
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dipodillus (Petteromys) bottai Lataste, 1882 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Petter, F. 1975 b. Subfamily Gerbillinae. Part 6.3. Pp. 7 - 12, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
- Kock, D. 1978. Vergleichende untersuchung einiger saugetiere im sudlichen Niger. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 58: 113 - 136.
- Lay, D. M. 1983. Taxonomy of the genus Gerbillus (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) with comments on the applications of generic and subgeneric names and an annotated list of species. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 48: 329 - 354.
- Pavlinov, I. Ya., Yu. A. Dubrovsky, O. L. Rossolimo, and E. G. Potapova. 1990. [Gerbils of the world.] Nauka, Moscow, 368 pp. (in Russian).