Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2
1189
1531
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Praomys degraaffi
Van der Straeten and Kerbis Peterhans 1999
Praomys degraaffi
Van der Straeten and Kerbis Peterhans 1999
,
S. Afr. J. Zool., 34: 81
.
Type Locality:
Burundi
, Nyamugari,
2200 m
.
Vernacular Names:
De Graaff's Praomys
.
Distribution:
Recorded only from moist montane forest covering the Albertine Rift Mtns in
Burundi
,
Rwanda
and
Uganda
(
Van der Straeten and Kerbis Peterhans, 1999
, who also indicated the species to be "restricted" to high forested elevations in the Albertine Rift).
Conservation:
IUCN
– Near Threatened.
Discussion:
A distinct and one of the more easily identified species in the
P. jacksoni
complex; distinguished from
P. jacksoni
by a suite of chromosomal traits (2n = 26, FN = 24), fur coloration, morphometric data, and number of teats. Where the altitudinal ranges of
P. degraaffi
and
P. jacksoni
narrowly overlap, the former is usually found at higher elevations.