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<mods:title>Order Rodentia - Family Muridae</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Guy G. Musser</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Michael D. Carleton</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Don E. Wilson</mods:namePart>
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<treatmentCitation author="Thomas" authority="(Thomas, 1909)" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1909" box="[210,1277,1533,1570]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" journal="Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="548" pageId="128" pageNumber="629" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triton" title="Mus triton" volume="4" year="1909">
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<emphasis box="[210,386,1533,1570]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="629">Mus triton</emphasis>
(Thomas, 1909)
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.
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.
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TYPE LOCALITY:
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, Mt Elgon, Kirui,
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.
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DISTRIBUTION: N
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and E
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(
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),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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of
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,
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, and
<collectingCountry box="[949,1071,1657,1696]" name="Angola" pageId="128" pageNumber="629">Angola</collectingCountry>
.
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SYNONYMS:
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Lonnberg and Gyldenstolpe" baseAuthorityYear="1925" box="[436,622,1699,1738]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="128" pageNumber="629" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="birungensis">birungensis</taxonomicName>
, fors, imatongensis, murilla,
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.
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COMMENTS: Subgenus
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.
</emphasis>
Listed as a questionable synonym of
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<emphasis box="[1449,1649,1742,1781]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="629">M. mahomet</emphasis>
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by
<bibRefCitation author="Yalden, D. W. &amp; M. J. Largen &amp; D. Kock" box="[336,718,1783,1822]" pageId="128" pageNumber="629" refId="ref397218" refString="Yalden, D. W., M. J. Largen, and D. Kock. 1976. Catalogue of the mammals of Ethiopia. 2. Insectivora and Rodentia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 8 (1): 1 - 118." year="1976">Yalden et al. (1976:30)</bibRefCitation>
who were unsure about the equivalence of
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<emphasis box="[1479,1621,1783,1822]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="629">mahomet</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1909" box="[1712,1803,1783,1822]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="128" pageNumber="629" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triton">
<emphasis box="[1712,1803,1783,1822]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="629">triton</emphasis>
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and merely noted that Ethiopian samples previously identified as
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<emphasis box="[1484,1574,1826,1864]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="629">triton</emphasis>
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were really
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Rhoads" authorityYear="1896" box="[336,477,1868,1907]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="128" pageNumber="629" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mahomet">mahomet</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
The description of
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<emphasis box="[827,1096,1868,1907]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="629">Mus birungensis</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
mirrors the range of variation of
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1909" box="[909,1056,1910,1948]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="128" pageNumber="629" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="triton">
<emphasis box="[909,1056,1910,1948]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="629">M. triton</emphasis>
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in series (in the American Museum of Natural History) we have examinied from the
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of E
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. Considerable chromosomal polymorphism has been reported in samples identified as
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<emphasis box="[1589,1739,1995,2034]" italics="true" pageId="128" pageNumber="629">M. triton</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Robbins, L. W. &amp; R. J. Baker" box="[346,775,2037,2076]" pageId="128" pageNumber="629" refId="ref306050" refString="Robbins, L. W., and R. J. Baker. 1978. Karyotypic data for African mammals, with a description of an in vivo bone marrow technique. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 6: 188 - 210." year="1978">Robbins and Baker, 1978</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. Extant southern limit of species is
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and
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of
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(about
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), but it was present in Natal,
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up to about 60,000 years ago (
<bibRefCitation author="Avery, D. M." box="[649,852,2123,2161]" pageId="128" pageNumber="629" refId="ref15952" refString="Avery, D. M. 1991. Late Quaternary incidence of some micromammalian species in Natal. Durban Museum Novitates, 16: 1 - 11." year="1991">Avery, 1991</bibRefCitation>
).
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