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Otomys F. Cuvier 1824
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Otomys F. Cuvier, 1824. Dents des Mammifères, p. 255.
TYPE SPECIES: Euryotis irrorata Brants, 1827.
SYNONYMS: Anchotomys, Euryotis, Lamotomys, Metotomys, Myotomys, Oreinomys, Oreomys, Palaeotomys.
COMMENTS: Bohmann (1952) included all otomyine species in Otomys, but most classifications have accorded the large-bullar forms seperate generic status as Parotomys (see below). Other synonyms have been infrequently treated as genera, namely Myotomys, including unisulcatus and sloggetti (see Thomas, 1918b; Pocock, 1976), and Lamotomys, including laminatus (see Roberts, 1951). Oldest known fossil Otomys species date from late Pliocene (2-3 mya) in South Africa and from early Pleistocene (1-2 mya) in East Africa (see Denys, 1989).
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 680, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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References
- Brants, A. 1827. Het Geslacht der muizen door Linnaeus opgesteld, volgens de tegenswoordige toestand der wetenschap in familien, geslachten en soorten verdeeld. Academische Boekdrukkerij, Berlijn, 190 pp.
- Bohmann, L., von. 1952. Die afrikanische Nagergattung Otomys F. Cuvier. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 18: 1 - 80.
- Thomas, O. 1918 b. A revised classification of the Otomyinae, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 2: 203 - 211.
- Pocock, T. N. 1976. Pliocene mammalian microfauna from Langebaanweg: A new fossil genus linking the Otomyinae with the Murinae. South African Journal of Science, 72: 58 - 60.
- Roberts, A. 1951. The mammals of South Africa. Trustees of " The mammals of South Africa " book fund, Johannesburg, 700 pp.