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Pelomys fallax Peters 1852

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Pelomys fallax Peters 1852

Pelomys fallax Peters 1852, Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 17: 275.

Type Locality: Mozambique, Caya Dist., Zambezi River.

Vernacular Names: East African Pelomys.

Synonyms: Pelomys australis Roberts 1913; Pelomys concolor Heller 1912; Pelomys frater Thomas 1904; Pelomys insignatus Osgood 1910; Pelomys iridescens Heller 1912; Pelomys luluae Matschie 1926; Pelomys rhodesiae Roberts 1929; Pelomys vumbae Roberts 1946.

Distribution: Savanna habitats from S Kenya (Hollister, 1919) and SW Uganda (Delany, 1975) through Tanzania (Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951), E and S Dem. Rep. Congo, Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1998), Zambia (Ansell, 1978), Malawi (Ansell and Dowsett, 1988), and Mozambique (Smithers and Lobao Tello, 1976), to E and NW Zimbabwe (Smithers and Wilson, 1979) and N Botswana (Smithers, 1971).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Appreciable variation in size and fur color exists between samples from Angola and Zambia and those from the rest of the geographic range of P. fallax, suggesting more than one species may be present in this complex. No extant records are from South Africa but the species occurred in KwaZulu-Natal more than 17,000 years before present when the region was covered with deciduous woodland instead of thornveld (Avery, 1991). Southern African Subregion population reviewed by de Graaff (1981, 1997 a) and Skinner and Smithers (1990).

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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 1436, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Peters
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Pelomys
Species
fallax
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pelomys fallax Peters, 1852 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

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  • Heller, E. 1912. New rodents from British East Africa. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 59: 1 - 20.
  • Osgood, W. H. 1910. Eight new African rodents. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 5: 276 - 282.
  • Roberts, A. 1929. New forms of African mammals. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 13: 82 - 121.
  • Roberts, A. 1946. Descriptions of numerous new subspecies of mammals. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 20: 303 - 328.
  • 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.
  • Delany, M. J. 1975. The rodents of Uganda. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 165 pp.
  • Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20 (6): 274 - 392.
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  • Ansell, W. F. H. 1978. The mammals of Zambia. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Chilanga, 126 pp.
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  • Smithers, R. H. N. 1971. The mammals of Botswana. Museum Memoir, National Museums of Rhodesia, Salisbury, 4: 1 - 340.
  • Avery, D. M. 1991. Late Quaternary incidence of some micromammalian species in Natal. Durban Museum Novitates, 16: 1 - 11.
  • de Graaff, G. 1981. The rodents of Southern Africa. Butterworths, Durban, 267 pp.
  • de Graaff, G. 1997 a. Groove-toothed mouse, Pelomys fallax. P. 138, in The complete book of southern African mammals (G. Mills and L. Hes, eds.). Struik Winchester, Capetown, 356 pp.
  • Skinner, J. D., and R. H. N. Smithers. 1990. The mammals of the southern African subregion. Second ed. University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 771 pp.