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)
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755
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Praomys misonnei
Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1987
.
Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk. ser. A, 402:3
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
E
Zaire
,
Kivu region
, Irangi
.
DISTRIBUTION: N and E
Zaire
.
COMMENTS: Sympatric with
P. jacksoni
at the type locality and with
P. jacksoni
and
P. mutoni
in Haut-Zaïre (
Van der Straeten and Dudu, 1990
). Regarded as related to
P. tullbergi
by
Van der Straeten and Dieterlen (1987)
. The type series and examples of
misonnei
we examined from the Ituri Forest in E
Zaire
and Gamangui in Haut-Zaïre, where
P. jacksoni
was also trapped, are morphologically very similar to
P. tullbergi
;
the possibility that
misonnei
simply represents populations of
P. tullbergi
at the eastern margins of its geographic range needs to be considered in any systematic revision of the complex.
Qumsiyeh et al. (1990)
identified Kenyan samples as
P. misonnei
,
and their chromosomal and electrophoretic characteristics relate the samples to
Mastomys hildebrandti
;
identity of the Kenyan material should be reassessed.