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Otomys denti Thomas 1906
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Otomys denti Thomas, 1906. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 18:142.
TYPE LOCALITY: Uganda, east slope of Mount Ruwenzori, Mubuku Valley, 6000 ft (as restricted by Moreau et al., 1946:420).
DISTRIBUTION: Intermittently found in EC Africa, from Mt. Ruwenzori, Uganda, through the Virunga volcanoes, to the Nyika Plateau of N Malawi and Zambia and to the Usambara and Uluguru mountains, EC Tanzania.
SYNONYMS: kempi, sungae.
COMMENTS: The form kempi has been treated as a distinct species (e.g., Ellerman, 1941; Thomas, 1918b); reduced to subspecific rank by Bohmann (1952) and so observed currently (Delany, 1975; Misonne, 1974).
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
- Moreau, R. E., G. H. E. Hopkins, and R. W. Hayman. 1946. The type-localities of some African mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1946: 387 - 447.
- Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
- 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.
- Bohmann, L., von. 1952. Die afrikanische Nagergattung Otomys F. Cuvier. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 18: 1 - 80.
- Delany, M. J. 1975. The rodents of Uganda. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 165 pp.
- Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.