African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon
Author
Denys, Christiane
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systematique et Évolution, Institut de Systématique Évolution et Biodiversité, UMR 7205, CNRS EPHE Paris VI, case postale 51, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) denys @ mnhn. fr
denys@mnhn.fr
Author
Missoup, Alain Didier
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systematique et Évolution, Institut de Systématique Évolution et Biodiversité, UMR 7205, CNRS EPHE Paris VI case postale 51, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) et Département de Biologie des Organismes Animaux, Université de Douala, Douala (Cameroon)
Author
Nicolas, Violaine
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systematique et Évolution, Institut de Systématique Évolution et Biodiversité, UMR 7205, CNRS EPHE Paris VI, case postale 51, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53133 Bonn (Germany)
Author
Fülling, Olaf
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53133 Bonn (Germany)
Author
Delapré, Arnaud
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systematique et Évolution, Institut de Systématique Évolution et Biodiversité, UMR 7205, CNRS EPHE Paris VI, case postale 51, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
Author
Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong
Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé (Cameroon)
Author
Taylor, Peter John J.
South African Research Chairs Initiative Chair on Biodiversity and Environmental Change and Core Team Member of Centre for Invasion Biology, University of Venda, P. Bag X 5050, Thohoyandou 0950 (South Africa)
Author
Hutterer, Rainer
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53133 Bonn (Germany)
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Zoosystema
2014
2014-09-26
36
3
647
690
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5252/z2014n3a6
journal article
10.5252/z2014n3a6
1638-9387
4539596
Hylomyscus walterverheyeni
Nicolas, Wendelen, Barrière, Dudu & Colyn, 2008
Hylomyscus walterverheyeni
Nicolas,Wendelen, Barrière, Dudu & Colyn, 2008: 226
.
TYPE
LOCALITY
. —
Gabon
, Dudu Mt.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. —
MNHN
: 2011-942, 2011-943, 2013-44, 2013-46.
Morphological characters
Besides the large
H. grandis
and the small
H. a.
montis
,
one can recover a medium size
Hylomyscus
that morphologically can be attributed to the
alleni-stella
complex (
Table 6
).
Eisentraut (1969)
described
H. alleni
on Mt Oku and named a subspecies (
alleni
montis
) from Bioko. He also described
H. stella
Thomas, 1911
from Nyasoso and Mt
Cameroon
.The taxonomy of this group has benefited from recent molecular and morphometric advances (
Nicolas
et al.
2008
a
, Missoup
et al.
2009), which allow us to report the first record of
H. walterverheyeni
from Mt Oku. Four specimens of this species (among which two have been sequenced) were collected during this study.