Pelomys fallax
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Pelomys fallax (Peters, 1852). Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 17:275.
TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, Caya Dist., Zambesi River and Boror, Licuare River.
DISTRIBUTION: S Kenya, SW Uganda, Tanzania, Zaire, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, E and NW Zimbabwe, and N Botswana.
SYNONYMS: australis, concolor, frater, insignatus, iridescens, luluae, rhodesiae, vumbae (see Allen, 1939; Meester et al., 1986).
COMMENTS: Appreciable variation in size and fur color exists between samples from Angola and Zambia and those from the rest of the geographic range of P. fallax, suggesting more than one species may be present in this complex.
No extant records are from South Africa but the species occurred in Natal more than 17,000 years before present when the region was covered with deciduous woodland instead of thornveld (Avery, 1991).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
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References
- Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.
- 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.
- Avery, D. M. 1991. Late Quaternary incidence of some micromammalian species in Natal. Durban Museum Novitates, 16: 1 - 11.