Lemniscomys macculus Thomas and Wroughton 1910
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Lemniscomys macculus Thomas and Wroughton 1910
Lemniscomys macculus Thomas and Wroughton 1910, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 19: 515.
Type Locality: Uganda, SE Ruwenzori, Mokia.
Vernacular Names: Buffoon Lemniscomys.
Synonyms: Lemniscomys akka (Thomas 1915).
Distribution: Recorded from Savannahs of NE Dem. Rep. Congo, S Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya; limits unknown.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Reviewed by Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1979 a). The species is often confused with L. striatus, but occurs sympatric with it in East Africa (Hollister, 1919) and Ethiopia (Yalden et al., 1996). Bulatova et al. (2002) recorded 2n = 56, FN = 60 for an Ethiopian sample. Considered very close to L. bellieri in morphological and molecular characters and possibly conspecific with it (Ducroz et al., 2001; see account of L. bellieri).
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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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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas and Wroughton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Lemniscomys
- Species
- macculus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lemniscomys macculus and, 1910 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Wroughton, R. C. 1910. On the nomenclature of the Indian hedgehogs. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 20: 80 - 82.
- Thomas, O. 1915. List of mammals (exclusive of Ungulata) collected on the Upper Congo by Dr. Christy for the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 16: 465 - 481.
- Van der Straeten, E., and W. N. Verheyen. 1979 a. Note sur la position systematique de Lemniscomys macculus (Thomas et Wroughton, 1910) (Mammalia, Muridae). Mammalia, 43: 377 - 389.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bulatova, N., L. Lavrenchenko, V. Orlov, and A. Milishnikov. 2002. Notes on chromosomal identification of rodent species in western Ethiopia. Mammalia, 66 (1): 128 - 132.
- Ducroz, J. - F., V. Volobouev, and L. Granjon. 2001. An assessment of the systematics of Arvicanthine Rodents using mitochondrial DNA sequences: Evolutionary and biogeographical implications. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 8: 173 - 206.