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
Stenocephalemys
Frick 1914
Stenocephalemys
Frick 1914
,
Ann. Carnegie
Mus
., 9: 7
.
Type Species:
Stenocephalemys albocaudata
Frick 1914
Species and subspecies:
4 species:
Species
Stenocephalemys albipes
(Rüppell 1842)
Species
Stenocephalemys albocaudata
Frick 1914
Species
Stenocephalemys griseicauda
F. Petter 1972
Species
Stenocephalemys ruppi
Van der Straeten and Dieterlen 1983
Discussion:
Stenocephalemys
Division. An Ethiopian endemic that is phylogenetically related to species of
Praomys
,
Mastomys
,
Myomyscus
,
Heimyscus
, and
Hylomyscus
(
Lecompte et al., 2002
b
)
. Significance of analyses of craniodental and phallic structure, allozymes, chromosomal data, partial mitochondrial 16S rRNA and complete mtDNA cytochrome
b
gene sequences, and geometric morphometrics from samples of
S. albipes
,
S. albocaudata
, and
S. griseicauda
(
Corti et al., 1999
;
Fadda and Corti, 2000
;
Fadda et al., 2001
a
;
Lavrenchenko et al., 1999
, 2000;
Lecompte et al., 2002
b
) are discussed in accounts that follow. Statistical summaries of external measurements from large series of
S. albocaudata
and
S. griseicauda
reported by
Sillero-Zubiri (1995
a
)
, and the habitat preferences of these two species, abundance, and biomass in relation to predation by the endangered Ethiopian wolf (
Canis simensis
) are documented by
Sillero-Zubiri (1995
c
)
. Spermatozoal morphology described by
Baskevich and Lavrenchenko (1995)
and
Breed (1995
a
)
. Isolated molars from late Miocene Ethiopian sediments (Chorora) were identified by
Geraads (2001)
as possibly being
Stenocephalemys
, and the genus is also represented by Pleistocene remains recovered in
Ethiopia
(
Jaeger, 1979
); see review by Denys (1999).