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Stenocephalemys griseicauda Petter 1972

Description

Stenocephalemys griseicauda Petter, 1972. Mammalia, 36:171.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Bale Mtns, Dinsho.

DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia; S and N highlands, 2400-3900 m (Demeter and Topal, 1982; Yalden, 1988).

COMMENTS: Another Ethiopian mountain endemic that overlaps altitudinally with S. albocaudata but occupies bushy areas rather than moorland (Yalden, 1988).

Notes

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 664, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Scientific name authorship
Petter
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Stenocephalemys
Species
griseicauda
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Stenocephalemys griseicauda Petter, 1972 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Demeter, A., and G. Topal. 1982. Ethiopian mammals in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Budapest), 74: 331 - 349.
  • Yalden, D. W. 1988. Small mammals of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. African Journal of Ecology, 26: 281 - 294.