Colomys Thomas and Wroughton 1907
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Colomys Thomas and Wroughton 1907
Colomys Thomas and Wroughton 1907, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 19: 379.
Type Species: Colomys goslingi Thomas and Wroughton 1907
Species and subspecies: 1 species:
Species Colomys goslingi Thomas and Wroughton 1907
Discussion: Colomys Division. Nilopegamys has been included in Colomys (Hayman, 1966) but was recently separated from it (Kerbis Peterhans and Patterson, 1995). Using dental characteristics, Misonne (1969) placed Colomys in a Parapodemus group of his Lenothrix-Parapodemus Division with an inferred relationship to Malacomys, but that affinity is currently rejected (Dieterlen, 1983; E. Lecompte, 2002 b; results of our research). Molar occlusal patterns of Colomys resemble those of the African Zelotomys (Misonne, 1969, and verified by our observations), a shared-derived morphological feature concordant with results from phylogenetic analyses of complete mtDNA cytochrome b sequences (Lecompte et al., 2002 b) and nuclear IRBP gene sequences (Lecompte, 2003), which indicates Colomys to be sister to Zelotomys. Those molecular data align Colomys and Zelotomys with Myomyscus verreauxii in a monophyletic cluster embedded in a larger group composed of Praomys, Mastomys, Hylomyscus, Heimyscus, other Myomyscus, and Stenocephalemys; partial 16S rRNA mtDNA sequences also associated Colomys with Praomys, Mastomys, and Hylomyscus (Fadda et al., 2001 a).
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- Is part of
- 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/0C76522B959E413C3E8834BB4263879D (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231539874 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Colomys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas and Wroughton
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Colomys and, 1907 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Hayman, R. W. 1966. On the affinities of Nilopegamys plumbeus Osgood. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, ser. 8 (Sciences Zoologiques), 144: 29 - 38.
- Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., and B. D. Patterson. 1995. The Ethiopian water mouse Nilopegamys Osgood, with comments on semi-aquatic adaptations in African Muridae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 113: 329 - 349.
- Misonne, X. 1969. African and Indo-Australian Muridae: Evolutionary trends. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Serie IN- 8, Sciences Zoologiques, 172: 1 - 219.
- Dieterlen, F. 1983. Zur Systematik, Verbreitung und Okologie von Colomys goslingi Thomas & Wroughton, 1907 (Muridae; Rodentia). Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 34: 73 - 106.
- Lecompte, E., L. Granjon, J. Kerbis Peterhans, and C. Denys. 2002 b. Cytochrome b-based phylogeny of the Praomys group (Rodentia, Murinae): A new African radiation? Comptes Rendus Biologies, 325: 827 - 840.
- Lecompte, E. 2003. Systematique et evolution du groupe Praomys (Rodentia, Murinae). These Docteur du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 365 pp.
- Fadda, C., M. Corti, and E. Verheyen. 2001 a. Molecular phylogeny of Myomys / Stenocephalemys complex and its relationships with related African genera. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 29: 585 - 596.