Acomys mullah Thomas 1904
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Acomys mullah Thomas, 1904. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 14:103.
TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia.
DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia and Somalia; limits unknown.
SYNONYMS: brockmani.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Acomys. Petter (1983) recognized brockmani as a valid species, suggesting it might be referable to mullah, which is the older name. These two forms are characterized by large molar rows, also diagnostic of lowei, which Petter implicitly associated with both mullah and brockmani as species. Ellerman (1941) also recognized mullah and brockmani as species, but Setzer (1975) arranged lowei as a subspecies of A. cahirinus, Dieterlen (in litt.) treated it as a synonym of A. cineraceus, and Setzer (1975) treated mullah and brockmani as subspecies of A. dimidiatus . Yalden et al. (1976) listed mullah as a synonym of A. cahirinus.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
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- Petter, F. 1983. Elements d'une revision des Acomys Africains. Un sous-genre nouveau, Peracomys Petter et Roche, 1981 (Rongeurs, Murides). Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren-Belgique, ser. 8 (Sciences Zoologiques), 237: 109 - 119.
- Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
- Setzer, H. W. 1975. Genus Acomys. Part 6.5. Pp. 1 - 2, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
- 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.