Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Guy G. Musser
Author
Michael D. Carleton
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
501
755
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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Hylomyscus denniae
(Thomas, 1906)
.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 18:144
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Uganda
, Mubuku Valley, Ruwenzori East,
7000 ft
.
DISTRIBUTION: Montane forest islands from WC
Angola
, extreme E
Zaire
,
Uganda
W
Rwanda
, and
Kenya
through
Tanzania
to NE
Zambia
.
SYNONYMS:
anselli,
endorobae
, vulcanorum.
COMMENTS: The species was superficially reviewed by
Hatt (1940a)
and more thoroughly by
Bishop (1979)
. The records of
H. carillus
from Chitau and Hanha in WC
Angola
(
Hill and Carter, 1941:98
) are based on examples of
H. denniae
.
additional samples (in the Field Museum of Natural History) were collected in the same region on Mt. Moco and Mt. Soque. Although a long way west from the nearest records of
H. denniae
,
most morphological characteristics of the Angolan series fall within the range of variation among samples now defined as
H. denniae
.
That variation, however, is appreciable, especially in body size, and its significance in determining whether one or more species is present in what is now regarded as
denniae
has to be assessed by systematic revision.