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
Acomys (Acomys) seurati
Heim de Balsac 1936
Acomys (Acomys) seurati
Heim de Balsac 1936
,
Bull. Biol. Fr. Belg., 21: 356
.
Type Locality:
S
Algeria
, Iniker, A’hagger (Ahaggar Mtns;
Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951
;
Ranck, 1968
).
Vernacular Names:
Seurat's Spiny Mouse
.
Distribution:
Recorded only from mountains of S
Algeria
, in Hoggar, Mouydir and Tassili n’Ajjers (Bates, 1994;
Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991
).
Discussion:
Subgenus
Acomys
. Described as a species by Heim de Balsac, but listed as a synonym of
A. cahirinus
by
Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951)
and
Musser and Carleton (1993)
; however, the karyotype is different (2n = 38, FN = 68 compared with 2n = 36, FN = 68 for
A. cahirinus
) and the two can be distinguished by molar morphology (
Denys et al., 1994:237
).
Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska (1991)
provided references to distributional records, ecology, and morphology of the species.