Tatera leucogaster
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Description
Tatera leucogaster (Peters, 1852). Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss., Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 17:274.
TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, north of Zambezi River, Mesuril, (as restricted by Davis, 1949:1004).
DISTRIBUTION: South Africa (W Orange Free State, Cape Prov. north of Orange River, NE Natal and Zululand, most of Transvaal; see Skinner and Smithers, 1990), Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, S Angola, SW Tanzania, and S Zaire.
SYNONYMS: angolae, bechuanae, beirae, beirensis, kaokoensis, limpopoensis, littoralis, lobengulae, mashonae, mitchelli, ndolae, nigrotibialis, nyasae, panja, pestis, pretoriae, salsa, schinzi, shirensis, stellae, tenuis, tzaneenensis, waterbergensis, zuluensis.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Taterona. Taxonomy and distribution summarized by Meester et al. (1986), who included the species in the T. robusta group. Namibian populations reviewed by Griffin (1990). Nongeographic variation in Botswana sample analyzed by Swanepoel et al. (1979).
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Tatera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Peters
- Species
- leucogaster
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tatera leucogaster (Peters, 1852) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Davis, D. H. S. 1949. The affinities of the South African gerbils of the genus Tatera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 118: 1002 - 1018.
- 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.
- Meester, J. A. J., I. L. Rautenbach, N. J. Dippenaar, and C. M. Baker. 1986. Classification of southern African mammals. Transvaal Museum Monograph, 5: 1 - 359.
- Griffin, M. 1990. A review of taxonomy and ecology of gerbilline rodents of the central Namib Desert, with keys to the species (Rodentia: Muridae). Pp. 83 - 98, in Namib ecology: 25 years of Namib research (M. K. Seely, ed.). Transvaal Museum Monograph, Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, 7: 1 - 230.
- Swanepoel, P., D. A. Schlitter, and H. H. Genoways. 1979. A study of nongeographic variation in Tatera leucogaster (Mammalia: Rodentia) from Botswana. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 48: 7 - 24.