Hylomyscus Kerbis Peterhans & Hutterer & Doty & Malekani & Moyer & Krásová & Bryja & Banasiak & Demos 2020
Authors/Creators
- 1. College of Arts & Sciences, Roosevelt University, 430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL USA 60605 & Science and Education, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA & P. O. Box 691, Iringa, Tanzania
- 2. Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany
- 3. U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, 1600 Clifton Rd. Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
- 4. Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- 5. Science and Education, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA & P. O. Box 691, Iringa, Tanzania
- 6. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- 7. Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic & Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic * Corresponding author: Email: jkerbis @ fieldmuseum. org
- 8. Science and Education, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Description
Key to Afromontane Hylomyscus (excepting W Africa) plus all members of the H. anselli group
1. Supra-orbital shelf strongly beaded ......................... ............................................. H. aeta (Thomas, 1911)
2. Supra-orbital shelf not beaded ............................... 3
3. Sub-squamosal foramen tiny/absent, hamular process short & thick (H. denniae group) .............. 5
4. Sub-squamosal foramen large, hamular process long & thin ............................................................. 9
5. Only found in Ruwenzori montane forests, size large ONL 25.6–27.8 ............. H. denniae (Thomas, 1906)
6. Found in other East African montane forests ........ 7
7. Size large, CI 26.8–28.6, Kenya only: Mt Kenya, Aberdares & Mau forests ......................................... ..................................... H. endorobae (Heller, 1910)
8. Size small, CI 24–26 mm, Albertine Rift S of Ruwenzoris (not including Tanzania) ...................... .... H. vulcanorum (Lönnberg & Gyldenstolpe, 1925)
9. Teats 4+4, incisors orthodont ................................... ........................................... H. stella (Thomas, 1911)
10. Teats 2+4, incisors proodont, orthodont or weakly opisthodont (H. anselli group) ............................. 11
11a.Crown length of upper tooth row under 3.3 (Congo Basin, small) ......................................................... 13
11b.Crown length of upper tooth row 3.3–4.0 (Afromontane, medium) ....................................... 15
11c.Crown length of upper tooth row over 4.0 (Afromontane, large) ............................................ 19
13. Crown length of upper tooth row under 1.8, slightly proodont .............................. H. pygmaeus (sp. nov.)
14. Crown length of upper tooth row 3.0–3.25, orthodont ....................... H. thornesmithae (sp. nov.)
15. Post palatal foramina at rear (3 rd lamina) of M1, LD and NL longer, Table 4 (montane Kenya only) ........ ..................... H. kerbispeterhansi Demos et al., 2014
16. Post palatal foramina between M1 and M2 or at beginning of M2, LD and NL shorter, Table 4 ..... 17
17. Post palatal foramina between M1 and M2, incisive foramina fall just short of upper molar alveoli, upper incisors orthodont (Eastern Arc only) ...................... .............. H. arcimontensis Carleton & Stanley, 2005
18. Post palatal foramina at beginning of M2, incisive foramina reach upper molar alveoli, upper incisors typically opisthodont (Mahale Mts only) ................. ............................ H. mpungamachagorum (sp. nov.)
19. Incisive foramina penetrate CLM, slightly opisthodont (Angola only) ....................................... ....................... H. heinrichorum Carleton et al., 2015
20. Incisive foramina do not penetrate CLM ............. 21
21. Occipito-nasal length under 26.4, nasal length under 9.4 (Zambia only) ............. H. anselli (Bishop, 1979)
22. Occipito-nasal length over 26.3, nasal length over 9.3 (Mbizi Mts only) ............... H. s tanleyi (sp. nov.)
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kerbis Peterhans & Hutterer & Doty & Malekani & Moyer & Krásová & Bryja & Banasiak & Demos
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Hylomyscus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hylomyscus Peterhans, 2020 sec. Peterhans, Hutterer, Doty, Malekani, Moyer, Krásová, Bryja, Banasiak & Demos, 2020
References
- Carleton MD, Stanley WT (2005) Review of the Hylomyscus denniae complex (Rodentia: Muridae) in Tanzania, with a description of a new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118: 619-646
- Carleton MD, Banasiak RA, Stanley WT (2015) A new species of the genus Hylomyscus from Angola, with a distributional summary of the H. anselli species group (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini). Zootaxa 4040: 101-128
- Bishop IR (1979) Notes on Praomys (Hylomyscus) in Eastern Africa. Mammalia 43: 519-530