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<document ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098" ID-ISBN="1-56098-217-9" ID-Zenodo-Dep="7353098" approvalRequired="3" approvalRequired_for_document="2" approvalRequired_for_originalDoi="1" checkinTime="1667534070963" checkinUser="GgServerImporter" docAuthor="Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton" docDate="1993" docId="03D087AEFF4EFF02FF3D03B2FCDBFD9F" docLanguage="en" docName="MammalSpeciesofTheWorld.1993.Muridae.501-755.pdf.imd" docOrigin="Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press" docTitle="Tachyoryctes Ruppell 1835" docType="treatment" docVersion="3" lastPageNumber="686" masterDocId="FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3" masterDocTitle="Order Rodentia - Family Muridae" masterLastPageNumber="755" masterPageNumber="501" pageNumber="685" updateTime="1669256938330" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:titleInfo>
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<mods:title>Order Rodentia - Family Muridae</mods:title>
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</mods:titleInfo>
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<mods:name type="personal">
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Guy G. Musser</mods:namePart>
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<mods:name type="personal">
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Michael D. Carleton</mods:namePart>
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<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
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<mods:dateIssued>1993</mods:dateIssued>
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<mods:publisher>Smithsonian Institution Press</mods:publisher>
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<mods:placeTerm>Washington and London</mods:placeTerm>
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<mods:roleTerm>Editor</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Don E. Wilson</mods:namePart>
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<mods:roleTerm>Editor</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>DeeAnn M. Reeder</mods:namePart>
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</mods:name>
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<mods:titleInfo>
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<mods:title>Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)</mods:title>
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<mods:start>501</mods:start>
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<mods:end>755</mods:end>
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<mods:classification>book chapter</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="ISBN">1-56098-217-9</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Zenodo-Dep">7353098</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285861" ID-Zenodo-Dep="7285861" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03D087AEFF4EFF02FF3D03B2FCDBFD9F" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF4EFF02FF3D03B2FCDBFD9F" lastPageId="185" lastPageNumber="686" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" rank="species">
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<subSubSection box="[206,1820,2228,2270]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" type="nomenclature">
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<paragraph blockId="184.[206,1853,2228,2728]" box="[206,1820,2228,2270]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">
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<treatmentCitation author="Ruppell" authority="Ruppell, 1835" authorityName="Ruppell" authorityYear="1835" box="[206,1644,2228,2270]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Tachyoryctes" journal="Neue wirbelth. Fauna Abyssin. Gehorig., Saugeth." kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="35" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus" title="Tachyoryctes" volume="1" year="1835">
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<taxonomicName authority="Ruppell, 1835" authorityName="Ruppell" authorityYear="1835" box="[206,665,2228,2270]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Tachyoryctes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[206,410,2228,2270]" italics="true" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
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Rüppell, 1835
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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<bibCitation author="Ruppell" box="[685,1644,2228,2270]" journal="Neue wirbelth. Fauna Abyssin. Gehorig., Saugeth." pageId="184" pageNumber="685" pagination="35" title="Tachyoryctes" volume="1" year="1835">Neue wirbelth. Fauna Abyssin. Gehörig., Säugeth., 1:35</bibCitation>
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, footnote.
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<subSubSection box="[288,1111,2272,2310]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" type="type_taxon">
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<paragraph blockId="184.[206,1853,2228,2728]" box="[288,1111,2272,2310]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">
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TYPE SPECIES:
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<taxonomicName authority="Ruppell, 1835" authorityName="Ruppell" authorityYear="1835" box="[503,1102,2272,2310]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Bathyergus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="splendens">
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<emphasis box="[503,852,2272,2310]" italics="true" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">Bathyergus splendens</emphasis>
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Rüppell, 1835
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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<subSubSection box="[288,662,2314,2352]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" type="synonym_list">
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<paragraph blockId="184.[206,1853,2228,2728]" box="[288,662,2314,2352]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">
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SYNONYMS:
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<emphasis box="[474,662,2314,2352]" italics="true" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">
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<taxonomicName box="[474,651,2314,2352]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Chrysomys" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Chrysomys</taxonomicName>
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.
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</emphasis>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="185" lastPageNumber="686" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" type="discussion">
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<paragraph blockId="184.[206,1853,2228,2728]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">
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COMMENTS:
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<bibRefCitation author="Hollister, N." box="[478,796,2353,2394]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" refId="ref157105" refString="Hollister, N. 1919. East African mammals in the United States National Museum. Part II. Rodentia, Lagomorpha, and Tubulidentata. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 99 (2): 1 - 184." year="1919">Hollister (1919:40)</bibRefCitation>
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listed eight species of
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<emphasis box="[1196,1411,2353,2394]" italics="true" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Ruppell" authorityYear="1835" box="[1196,1406,2353,2394]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Tachyoryctes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Tachyoryctes</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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noting that "all have constant characters of differentiation, and intergradation between any two of them is not indicated by this material," and speculated that the "numerous forms will doubtlessly be connected by complete chains of intergrades and the final monographer of the genus will be obliged to reduce many of the named forms to the rank of subspecies."
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<bibRefCitation author="Allen, G. M." box="[737,945,2562,2603]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" refId="ref4894" refString="Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763." year="1939">Allen (1939)</bibRefCitation>
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and
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<bibRefCitation author="Ellerman, J. R." box="[1036,1307,2562,2603]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" refId="ref92857" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp." year="1941">Ellerman (1941)</bibRefCitation>
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listed 14 species of
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<emphasis box="[374,590,2604,2645]" italics="true" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Ruppell" authorityYear="1835" box="[374,584,2604,2645]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Tachyoryctes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Tachyoryctes</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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but these were reduced to T.
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<emphasis box="[1108,1338,2604,2645]" italics="true" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">macrocephalus</emphasis>
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and T.
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<emphasis box="[1470,1627,2604,2645]" italics="true" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">splendens</emphasis>
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by
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<bibRefCitation author="Misonne, X." pageId="184" pageNumber="685" refId="ref243324" refString="Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated." year="1974">Misonne (1974)</bibRefCitation>
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who was followed by
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<bibRefCitation author="Corbet, G. B. & J. E. Hill" box="[874,1259,2646,2686]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" refId="ref67916" refString="Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp." year="1991">Corbet and Hill (1991)</bibRefCitation>
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. Of the twenty forms described,
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<bibRefCitation author="Rahm, U." box="[374,590,2688,2728]" pageId="184" pageNumber="685" refId="ref296136" refString="Rahm, U. 1980. Die afrikanische Wurzelratte, Tachyoryctes. Die Neue Brehm-Bucherei, 528: 1 - 60." year="1980">Rahm (1980)</bibRefCitation>
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considered about 16 of them to be valid subspecies of T.
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<emphasis box="[1589,1756,2688,2728]" italics="true" pageId="184" pageNumber="685">splendens.</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="185.[374,1863,290,620]" pageId="185" pageNumber="686">
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This change from 14 to 2 species was not based on careful analyses of morphological variation characterizing the named forms. Aside from
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<bibRefCitation author="Bekele, A." box="[1584,1842,333,372]" pageId="185" pageNumber="686" refId="ref26150" refString="Bekele, A. 1986. The status of some mole-rats of the genus Tachyoryctes (Rodentia: Rhizomyidae) based upon craniometric studies. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 99: 411 - 417." year="1986">Bekele's (1986)</bibRefCitation>
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inconclusive univariate analyses of craniometric data from samples of
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<emphasis box="[1605,1826,374,416]" italics="true" pageId="185" pageNumber="686">Tachyoryctes,</emphasis>
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no assessment of morphological variation in the genus is available in context of a systematic revision. Until such a study provides documentation and definition of specific limits and their geographic distributions, we return to a modifed treatment of the arrangement by
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<bibRefCitation author="Allen, G. M." box="[770,977,541,583]" pageId="185" pageNumber="686" refId="ref4894" refString="Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763." year="1939">Allen (1939)</bibRefCitation>
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and
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<bibRefCitation author="Ellerman, J. R." box="[1068,1343,541,583]" pageId="185" pageNumber="686" refId="ref92857" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp." year="1941">Ellerman (1941)</bibRefCitation>
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, which reflects the diagnostic information now available.
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