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Steatomys jacksoni Hayman 1936
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Steatomys jacksoni Hayman, 1936. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1935:930 [1936].
TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana, Ashanti, Wenchi.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from type locality and SW Nigeria.
COMMENTS: This species was known only by the holotype, but a few specimens have been recorded from SW Nigeria (Anadu, 1979), and earlier Rosevear (1969) had suggested that two young animals from Wulehe, Togo, might be examples of S. jacksoni. Included in S. pratensis by Coetzee (1977a), but retained as a species by Swanepoel and Schütter (1978), who preferred to recognize it until significance of the diagnostic character (size and shape of interparietal) could be assessed by additional specimens.
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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 page 545, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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References
- Anadu, P. A. 1979. The occurrence of Steatomys jacksoni Hayman in south-western Nigeria. Acta Theriologica, 24: 513 - 526.
- Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604.
- Coetzee, C. G. 1977 a. Genus Steatomys. Part 6.8. Pp. 1 - 4, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.