Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2
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1531
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Praomys hartwigi
Eisentraut 1968
Praomys hartwigi
Eisentraut 1968
,
Bonn. Zool. Beitr., Vol. 19: 11-Aug
.
Type Locality:
Cameroon
, Bamenda Plateau, Mt Oku, Lake Oku,
2100 m
(coordinates provided by Ansell, 1989:56).
Vernacular Names:
Hartwig's Praomys
.
Distribution:
Recorded only in isolated mountain forests along the mountain chain on the Bamenda Plateau in W
Cameroon
(Mt Bambuto, Mt Lefo and Mt Oku;
Hutterer et al., 1992
a
; Van der Straeten, in litt., 1994).
Conservation:
IUCN
– Endangered.
Discussion:
Lecompte et al. (1999)
regarded
P. hartwigi
as a member of the
P. tullbergi
complex, which has been confirmed by phylogenetic analyses of morphological traits (
Lecompte et al., 2002
a
) and complete mtDNA cytochrome
b
sequences (
Lecompte et al., 2002
b
). Fülling (1992) contrasted morphology of palatal ridges between samples of
P. hartwigi
(2 + 7 = 9) and
P. jacksoni
(2 + 5 = 7) collected from slopes of Mt Oku. Morphologically and phylogenetically allied to
P. obscurus
(see that account), which is separated from
P. hartwigi
by about
100 km
in the Gotel Mtns on the Mambilla
Plateau
to the northeast of the Bamenda
Plateau
(
Hutterer et al., 1992
a
).