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<emphasis id="99932CE079A5928B7711D55E122D344E" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">Otomys cuanzensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="1C05A5E40E6A03C7C4C9C8381DA0CB69" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">Otomys cuanzensis</emphasis>
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,
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Am.
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. Novit., 913: 7
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.
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<emphasis id="22B1AADC4B7FA95D1C82DCB107914B6D" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1525">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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, Chitau,
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<emphasis id="4942559FF1FFC5694D0901C60C8FB0EC" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1525">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="A92EB45D0C25B29A6E46F0A0B1EC26FA" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1525">Distribution:</emphasis>
C
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; limits uncertain.
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<emphasis id="56535279B21ADD7AA61C157DB460EEF0" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1525">Discussion:</emphasis>
Described as a species, but
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drew it within his polytypic interpretation of
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<emphasis id="A32E527616DB90D1CFB8E4F9CCB38A76" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">O. irroratus</emphasis>
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, its usual allocation thereafter (Crawford-Cabral, 1986; Ellerman et al., 1953;
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;
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).
<bibRefCitation id="092BEF5863BEB568C216A0E4829C535A" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; M. D. Carleton" refId="ref252333" refString="Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp." year="1993">Musser and Carleton (1993)</bibRefCitation>
mistakenly aligned
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<emphasis id="A65A8F5C91C6F476733A96E3FF11801B" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">cuanzensis</emphasis>
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as a synonym of
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<emphasis id="240CE47CF33C2002DDE392838C1C2D51" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">O. maximus</emphasis>
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, but its affinity lies with
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<emphasis id="030AE4D2FE43969F94A7604F41D17589" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">O. irroratus</emphasis>
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proper, as appreciated by Crawford-Cabral (1986). Hill and Carters (1937) specific description is terse, contrasting
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<emphasis id="2455CD260A16E2E33CAA92656E2DE960" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">cuanzensis</emphasis>
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solely with Angolan populations of the very different form
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<emphasis id="ADA4EDD64E25BFCC2F3EE73A005BC8CB" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">maximus</emphasis>
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, not
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<emphasis id="81198D2C783B52D886C78C09902069C9" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">irroratus</emphasis>
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in the strict sense. The
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(
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85841) and referred specimens (
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series) of
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<emphasis id="D4A9B674BE9AC078EE43CBC579946691" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">cuanzensis</emphasis>
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approximate
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<emphasis id="DC1D052F3A39914E4167869B395FB733" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">O. irroratus</emphasis>
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in overall size and uniformly possess a six-laminated M3 and large stapedial foramen; however, they differ from
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<emphasis id="40B43F16F786F3F817768551BC038427" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">O. irroratus</emphasis>
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in their predominantly brown dorsal pelage and narrower nasals, a contrast also remarked by
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. In view of such differences, the apparently wide geographic hiatus from southern African
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<emphasis id="B1B97ADAD643E45DA75E1B0960F31050" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">O. irroratus</emphasis>
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, and the pronounced karyotypic and genetic substructuring known for even contiguous populations of the latter (e.g.,
<bibRefCitation id="B60F690295857BE85C167F70D79D3706" author="Contrafatto, G. &amp; J. R. Van den Berg &amp; J. H. Grace" refId="ref65564" refString="Contrafatto, G., J. R. Van den Berg, and J. H. Grace. 1997. Genetic variation in the African rodent subfamily Otomyinae (Muridae): Immuno-electrotransfer of liver proteins of some Otomys irroratus (Brants 1827) populations. Tropical Zoology, 10: 157 - 171." year="1997">Contrafatto et al., 1997</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="9B44C4377365C40C6DBC49B3C90DA6F2" author="Taylor, P. J." refId="ref348781" refString="Taylor, P. J. 2000 b. Patterns of chromosomal variation in southern African rodents. Journal of Mammalogy, 81: 317 - 331." year="2000">
Taylor, 2000
<emphasis id="31A0A4BE0378A6BD0FAC8F360871924C" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">b</emphasis>
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), we retain
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<emphasis id="E37D6D7F927CD1F3F16778C4A18C363E" italics="true" pageNumber="1525">cuanzensis</emphasis>
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as species until its relationships and status can be critically assessed.
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