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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Dasymys nudipes
(Peters, 1870)
.
Jorn. Sei. Math., Phys. Nat.,
Lisboa
, ser. 1, 3:126
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Angola
, Huilla
.
DISTRIBUTION: S
Angola
, SW
Zambia
, NE
Namibia
, N
Botswana
; limits unknown, possibly also occurs in NW
Zimbabwe
.
COMMENTS: Treated by
Allen (1939)
,
Hill and Carter (1941)
, and
Roberts (1951)
as a species, but included in
D. incomtus
by
Ellerman (1941)
and most later writers of lists (e.g.,
Meester et al., 1986
;
Misonne, 1974
).
Crawford-Cabral (1983)
recorded sympatry between
D. nudipes
and
D. incomtus
in
Angola
, and our survey of series from Chitau identified as
D. nudipes
by
Hill and Carter (1941:98)
revealed it consists of both
nudipes
and
incomtus
,
qualitative observations supported by morphometric analyses (
Crawford-Cabral and Pacheco, 1989
). Lukolela and Luluabourg,
Zaire
, have been included within range of
D. nudipes
(
Crawford-Cabral, 1983
)
, but specimens from there (in the American Museum of Natural History) are examples of
D. incomtus
.
The
holotype
and only specimen of
edsoni,
described as subspecies of
D. nudipes
from Lukolela, middle
Zaire
(
Hatt, 1934b
), is an
incomtus
,
not a
nudipes
.