Order Rodentia - Family Myoxidae
Author
Mary Ellen Holden
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
763
770
book chapter
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Graphiurus parvus
(True, 1893)
.
Proc.
U.S.
Natl. Mus., 16(95A):601
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Kenya
,
Tana River
, between the coast and Hameye
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Sierra Leone
,
Ivory Coast
,
Ghana
,
Nigeria
,
Mali
,
Sudan
, N
Uganda
and
Kenya
(see
Hollister, 1919
),
Ethiopia
,
Somalia
,
Tanzania
(see
Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951
). In W Africa see
Rosevear (1969)
.
SYNONYMS:
brockmani, dollmani,
foxi
, internus,
personatus
(see
Allen, 1939
, for citations).
COMMENTS: Schütter et al. (1985) discussed taxonomic problems associated with the small dormice occurring in savannahs, scrub, and woodlands of west, east, and southern Africa. Three species of this grade are provisionally recognized here; G.
kelleni
,
G. olga
,
and G.
parvus
.