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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Dasymys rufulus
Miller, 1900
.
Proc.
Washington
Acad. Sci., 2:639
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Liberia
, Mount Coffee
.
DISTRIBUTION: Specimen records are from
Sierra Leone
,
Liberia
,
Ivory Coast
,
Ghana
,
Togo
,
Benin
, E
Nigeria
, and
Cameroon
.
SYNONYMS:
longipilosus
.
COMMENTS: Morphometric and geographic contrasts with
D. foxi
presented by
Carleton and Martinez (1991)
. Relationships with populations from
Zaire
and elsewhere now treated as
D.
incomtus
bentleyae
need to be clarified by critical systematic revision.