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 morio
(Trouessart, 1881)
.
Bull. Soc. Etudes Sci. Angers, 10:121
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Cameroon
, Mt.
Cameroon
,
7000 ft
; see
Rosevear (1969:399)
.
DISTRIBUTION: Mt.
Cameroon
.
SYNONYMS:
maurus
(of Gray, 1862, not
Waterhouse, 1839
).
COMMENTS: A member of the
P. tullbergi
complex. We restrict
P. morio
to Mt.
Cameroon
, although
Eisentraut (1970)
recorded it from Bioko, and
Petter (1965)
discussed samples from the
Central African Republic
. The species requires definition; alledged distinctions between it and
P. tullbergi
may not reflect specific differences (Hutterer, in litt.). Our study revealed that series from outside of Mt.
Cameroon
identified as
morio
are either
tullbergi
or an undescribed species of
Praomys
(the series from
Central African Republic
, for example).