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Otomys angoniensis Wroughton 1906

Description

Otomys angoniensis Wroughton, 1906. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 18:274.

TYPE LOCALITY: Malawi (= Nyasaland), Angoniland, M'Kombhuie, 8,000 ft. (2438 m).

DISTRIBUTION: Cape Prov. (South Africa) to Kenya.

COMMENT: Includes tugelensis; see Misonne, 1974, Part 6:33, who also included maximus in this species; but Swanepoel et al., 1980, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 32(7): 161, considered maximus a distinct species.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008111007001 as O. tugelensis.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 445, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031

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Scientific name authorship
Wroughton
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Genus
Otomys
Species
angoniensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Otomys angoniensis Wroughton, 1906 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
  • Swanepoel, P., R. H. N. Smithers, and I. L. Rautenbach. 1980. A checklist and numbering system of the extant mammals of the Southern African Subregion. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 32: 155 - 196.