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Dendromus melanotis Smith 1834
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Dendromus melanotis Smith, 1834. S. Afr. Quart. J., 2: 158.
TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, near Port Natal (Durban).
DISTRIBUTION: From South Africa (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:306) north to Uganda, and west through Nigeria to Mt-Nimba in Guinea; also from Ethiopia (# 8119 in American Museum of Natural History), but published records might be D. mystacalis (Yalden et al., 1976). Limits of range unresolved.
SYNONYMS: arenarius, basuticus, capensis, carteri, chiversi, concinnus, exoneratus, insignis (Shortridge and Carter, 1938, not Thomas, 1903), leucostomus, nigrifrons, pallidus, pretoriae, shortridgei, spectabilis, subtilis, thorntoni, vulturnus.
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Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 542-543, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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References
- 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.
- Yalden, D. W., M. J. Largen, and D. Kock. 1976. Catalogue of the mammals of Ethiopia. 2. Insectivora and Rodentia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 8 (1): 1 - 118.
- Shortridge, G. C., and T. D. Carter. 1938. A new genus and new species and subspecies of mammals from Little Namaqualand and the north-west Cape Province; and a new subspecies of Gerbillus paeba from the eastern Cape Province. Annals of the South African Museum, 3 (2): 281 - 291.
- Thomas, O. 1903. Notes on Neotropical mammals of the genera Felis, Hapale, Oryzomys, Akodon, and Ctenomys, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 12: 234 - 243.