Grammomys Thomas 1915
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Grammomys Thomas 1915
Grammomys Thomas 1915, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 16: 150.
Type Species: Mus dolichurus Smuts 1832
Species and subspecies: 12 species:
Species Grammomys aridulus Thomas and Hinton 1923
Species Grammomys buntingi (Thomas 1911)
Species Grammomys caniceps Hutterer and Dieterlen 1984
Species Grammomys cometes (Thomas and Wroughton 1908)
Species Grammomys dolichurus (Smuts 1832)
Species Grammomys dryas (Thomas 1907)
Species Grammomys gigas (Dollman 1911)
Species Grammomys ibeanus (Osgood 1910)
Species Grammomys kuru (Thomas and Wroughton 1907)
Species Grammomys macmillani (Wroughton 1907)
Species Grammomys minnae Hutterer and Dieterlen 1984
Species Grammomys poensis Eisentraut 1965
Discussion: Oenomys Division. A distinctive genus as asserted by Ellerman (1941) and other workers (e.g., Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1984; Misonne, 1969; Rosevear, 1969), and not part of Thamnomys with which it has often been united as a subgenus (G. M. Allen, 1939; Hatt, 1940 b; Hollister, 1919; Misonne, 1974; F. Petter and Tranier, 1975). Morphological and chromosomal similarities exist with Thallomys (Olert et al., 1978). Analysis of microcomplement fixation of albumin associated Grammomys with Lemniscomys, Pelomys, Rhabdomys, and Thallomys (Watts and Baverstock, 1995 a). Research using mitochondrial gene sequences (DNA cytochrome b, 12S and 16S rRNA fragments) placed Grammomys next to Aethomys within an African murine clade consisting of Hybomys, Dasymys, Lemniscomys, Rhabdomys, Desmomys, Pelomys, Mylomys, and Arvicanthis (Ducroz et al., 2001). Partly reviewed by F. Petter and Tranier (1975) and Hutterer and Dieterlen (1984), who provided morphological, distributional, and chromosomal comparisons.
Two of the species listed below, G. kuru and G. poensis (both formerly included in G. rutilans; see Musser and Carleton, 1993, for example), along with an undescribed species from Mt Oku in W Cameroon, form a monophyletic group separate from the other species of Grammomys and will eventually be placed in a new genus (R. Hutterer, pers. comm., 2002). The taxa kuru and poensis (and rutilans, which is unavailable) have been considered members of Thamnomys (G. M. Allen, 1939; Ellerman, 1941; Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1984), but external, cranial, and dental morphology is more similar to that characterizing species of Grammomys (where it was listed by D. H. S. Davis, 1965, and Misonne, 1974), and we include them within that genus pending publication of Hutterer’s revision (he also provided most of the information for the two accounts). Fossils identified as Grammomys come from Pliocene-Pleistocene strata of East Africa and South Africa (Avery, 2000; Jaeger, 1976; Jaeger and Wesselman, 1976; see review by Denys, 1999) and Pleistocene sediments of Namibia (Senut et al., 1992).
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- 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.
- Hinton, M. A. C. 1923. On the voles collected by Mr. G. Forrest in Yunnan; with remarks upon the genera Eothenomys and Neodon and upon their allies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 11: 145 - 162.
- Hutterer, R., and F. Dieterlen. 1984. Zwei neue Arten der Gattung Grammomys aus Athiopien und Kenia (Mammalia: Muridae). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, ser. A (Biologie), 347: 1 - 18.
- Thomas, O., and R. C. Wroughton. 1908. The Rudd exploration of S. Africa. -- X. List of mammals collected by Mr. Grant near Tette, Zambesia. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1908: 535 - 552.
- Dollman, G. 1911. On Arvicanthis abyssinicus and allied East-African species, with descriptions of four new forms. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 8: 334 - 353.
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- Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
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- Petter, F., and M. Tranier. 1975. Contribution a l'etude des Thamnomys du groupe dolichurus (Rongeurs, Murides). Systematique et caryologie. Mammalia, 39: 405 - 414.
- Olert, J., F. Dieterlen, and H. Rupp. 1978. Eine neue Muriden-Art aus Sudathiopien. Zeitschrift fur Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, 16 (4): 297 - 308.
- Watts, C. H. S., and P. R. Baverstock. 1995 a. Evolution in some African Murinae (Rodentia) assessed by microcomplement fixation of albumin. Journal of African Zoology, 109: 423 - 433.
- 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.
- 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.
- Avery, D. M. 2000. Notes on the systematics of micromammals from Sterkfontein, Gauteng, South Africa. Palaeontologica Africana, 36: 83 - 90.
- Jaeger, J. - J., and B. Wesselman. 1976. Fossil remains of micromammals from the Omo Group deposits. Pp. 351 - 360, in Earliest Man and Environments in the Lake Rudolf Basin. Stratigraphy, paleoecology, and evolution (Y. Coppens, F. C. Howell, G. L. Isaac, and R. E. F. Leakey, eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 615 pp.
- Senut, B., M. Pickford, P. Mein, G. Conroy, and J. Van Couvering. 1992. Discovery of 12 new Late Cainozoic fossiliferous sites in palaeokarsts of the Otavi Mountains, Namibia. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences (Paris), 314 (ser. II): 727 - 733.