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Acomys percivali Dollman 1911
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Acomys percivali Dollman, 1911. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 8:126.
TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Chanler Falls, Nyiro.
DISTRIBUTION: S Sudan (E of White Nile), Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and S Somalia.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Acomys. Treated as a synonym of kempi, which in turn was included within A. cahirinus by Setzer (1975). However, Hollister (1919) treated percivali as a species based on many specimens, as did Ellerman (1941). Both Matthey (1968) and Hubert (1978b) identified specimens from Ethiopia as A. percivali. Petter (1983) acknowledged the specific status of percivali as did Neal (1983). Janecek et al. (1991) regarded percivali as the species genically most closely related to A. wilsoni.
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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 566, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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References
- 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.
- Hollister, N. 1919. East African mammals in the United States National Museum. Part II. Rodentia, Lagomorpha, and Tubulidentata. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 99 (2): 1 - 184.
- Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
- Matthey, R. 1968. Cytogenetique et taxonomie du genre Acomys. A. percivali Dollman et A. wilson Thomas, especes D'Abyssinie. Mammalia, 32: 621 - 627.
- Hubert, B. 1978 b. Modern rodent fauna of the lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 6: 109 - 112.
- 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.
- Neal, B. R. 1983. The breeding pattern of two species of spiny mice, Acomys percivali and A. wilsoni (Muridae: Rodentia), in central Kenya. Mammalia, 47: 311 - 321.
- Janecek, L. L., D. A. Schlitter, and I. L. Rautenbach. 1991. A genic comparison of spiny mice, genus Acomys. Journal of Mammalogy, 72: 542 - 552.