Grammomys poensis Eisentraut 1965
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Grammomys poensis Eisentraut 1965
Grammomys poensis Eisentraut 1965, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., 92: 26.
Type Locality: Equatorial Guinea, Bioko, Moca, 1200 m.
Vernacular Names: Western Rainforest Grammomys.
Synonyms: Grammomys rutilans (Peters 1876).
Distribution: Western tropical rain forest blocks and outlying patches: from Guinea (Mt Nimba) eastward through Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana (Grubb et al., 1998, as rutilans), and Togo to S Nigeria, then south through Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (including Bioko; Eisentraut, 1965), and Gabon to N Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1998, as rutilans). This outline is provisional; samples from Gabon and N Angola should be reexamined to determine if they are this species or the smaller G. kuru.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as G. rutilans.
Discussion: The species is better known as Grammomys rutilans (Peters, 1876; see Musser and Carleton, 1993, for example). Mus rutilans Peters, 1876, however, is a junior homonym of Mus rutilans Olfers, 1818, a South American sigmodontine cricetid, which has been used in the combination Oxymycterus rutilans (Olfers, 1818) by Hershkovitz (1959 a), Vaz-Ferreira (1960), Reig (1964, 1965), Carleton (1973), and Voss and Linzey (1981). Hershkovitz (1994) recently placed rutilans in the synonymy of Oxymycterus rufus (Fischer, 1814). Mus rutilans Peters, 1876, therefore, is not available; poensis, described as a subspecies of G. rutilans by Eisentraut (1965) refers to the same genus and species, and is the valid species name for the taxon. The karyotype (2n = 36) reported by Tranier and Dosso (1979) for an individual captured in Côte d’Ivoire refers to G. poensis. Phylogenetically most closely related to G. kuru (see that account).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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- Scientific name authorship
- Eisentraut
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Grammomys
- Species
- poensis
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Grammomys poensis Eisentraut, 1965 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Eisentraut, M. 1965. Die Muriden von Fernando Poo. Zoologisches Jahrbuch Systematik, 92: 13 - 40.
- Peters, W. C. H. 1876. Uber die Pelzrobbe von der Inseln St. Paul und Amsterdam. Monatsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876: 315 - 316.
- Grubb, P., T. S. Jones, A. G. Davies, E. Edberg, E. D. Starin, and J. E. Hill. 1998. Mammals of Ghana, Sierra Leone and The Gambia. The Trendrine Press, Cornwall, 265 pp.
- 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.
- Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp.
- Olfers, I. von. 1818. Bemerkungen zu Illiger's Ueberblick der Saugthiere nach ihrer Vertheilung uber die Welttheile, rucksichtich der Sudamericanischen Arten (Species). Abhandlung X in W. L. von Eschwege, Journal von Brasilien, odor vermischte Nachrichten aus Brasilien, auf wissenschaftlichen Reisen gesammelt. Heft 2 in F. Bertuch (ed.), Neue Bibliothek der wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen zur Erweiterung der Erd- und Volkerkunde, Band 15: 192 - 237. Weimar.
- Hershkovitz, P. 1959 a. Nomenclature and taxonomy of the Neotropical mammals described by Olfers, 1818. Journal of Mammalogy, 40: 337 - 353.
- Reig, O. A. 1964. Roedores y marsupials del Partido de General Pueyrredon y regions ajyacentes (Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina). Publicaciones del Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales de Mar del Plata, 1: 203 - 224.
- Carleton, M. D. 1973. A survey of gross stomach morphology in New World Cricetinae (Rodentia, Muroidea), with comments on functional interpretations. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 146: 1 - 43.
- Voss, R. S., and A. V. Linzey. 1981. Comparative gross morphology of male accessory glands among Neotropical Muridae (Mammalia: Rodentia) with comments on systematic implications. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 159: 1 - 41.
- Hershkovitz, P. 1994. The description of a new species of South American hocicudo, or long-nosed mouse, Genus Oxymycterus (Sigmodontinae, Muroidea), with a critical review of the generic content. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 79: 43.
- Tranier, M., and H. Dosso. 1979. Recherches caryotypiques sur les rongeurs de Cote d'Ivoire: Resultats preliminaires pour les milieux fermes. Annales de l'Universite d'Abidjan, ser. E (Ecologie), 12: 181 - 183.