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
book chapter
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Steatomys jacksoni
Hayman, 1936
.
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1935:930
[1936].
TYPE LOCALITY:
Ghana
,
Ashanti
, Wenchi
.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from type locality and SW
Nigeria
.
COMMENTS: This species was known only by the
holotype
, but a few specimens have been recorded from SW
Nigeria
(
Anadu, 1979
), and earlier
Rosevear (1969)
had suggested that two young animals from Wulehe,
Togo
, might be examples of S.
jacksoni
.
Included in
S.
pratensis
by
Coetzee (1977a)
, but retained as a species by Swanepoel and Schütter (1978), who preferred to recognize it until significance of the diagnostic character (size and shape of interparietal) could be assessed by additional specimens.