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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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<emphasis box="[261,600,1371,1409]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="594">Grammomys rutilons</emphasis>
(Peters, 1876)
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.
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Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss.
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TYPE LOCALITY:
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<collectingCountry box="[547,663,1413,1449]" name="Gabon" pageId="93" pageNumber="594">Gabon</collectingCountry>
, Limbareni
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.
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DISTRIBUTION: Tropical rain forest block and outlying patches: from
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(Mt Nimba) eastward through
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,
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,
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, S
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to
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and
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, then south through
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,
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, and
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to N
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. Also found on Bioko (=
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) and in forest patches in W
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.
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SYNONYMS:
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Miller" authorityYear="1906" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1902" box="[485,629,1625,1662]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Grammomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="centralis">centralis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomas &amp; Wroughton" baseAuthorityYear="1907" box="[647,726,1625,1662]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Grammomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kuru">kuru</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Eisentraut" baseAuthorityYear="1965" box="[744,866,1625,1662]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Grammomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="poensis">poensis</taxonomicName>
.
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COMMENTS: Usually considered a member of
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<emphasis box="[1060,1250,1665,1703]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="594">Thamnomys</emphasis>
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(
<bibRefCitation author="Allen, G. M." box="[1277,1474,1665,1703]" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" 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>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Ellerman, J. R." box="[1494,1755,1665,1703]" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" 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>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Hutterer, R. &amp; F. Dieterlen" box="[386,888,1707,1745]" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" refId="ref163718" refString="Hutterer, R., and F. Dieterlen. 1984. Zwei neue Arten der Gattung Grammomys aus Athiopien und Kenia (Mammalia: Muridae). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, ser. A (Biologie), 347: 1 - 18." year="1984">Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1984</bibRefCitation>
), but external, cranial, and dental morphology is more similar to that characterizing species of
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<emphasis box="[1081,1278,1749,1787]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="594">Grammomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(where it was listed by D. H. S. Davis, 1965, and
<bibRefCitation author="Misonne, X." box="[686,937,1790,1828]" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" 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>
), and we include it within
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<emphasis box="[1402,1600,1790,1828]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="594">Grammomys</emphasis>
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pending critical systematic evaluation of samples now identified as
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Matthey" baseAuthorityYear="1963" box="[1411,1543,1832,1871]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Grammomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rutilans">rutilans</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
The form
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,
</emphasis>
treated here and by D. H. S. Davis (1965) as a synonym of G.
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Matthey" baseAuthorityYear="1963" box="[1448,1579,1875,1913]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Grammomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rutilans">rutilans</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
is sometimes listed as a species (e.g.,
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), but with provisions (
<bibRefCitation author="Hatt, R. T." box="[1457,1657,1916,1955]" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" refId="ref142554" refString="Hatt, R. T. 1940 a. Lagomorpha and Rodentia other than Sciuridae, Anomaluridae and Idiuridae, collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 76 (9): 457 - 604." year="1940">Hatt, 1940a</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Hutterer, R. &amp; F. Dieterlen" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" refId="ref163718" refString="Hutterer, R., and F. Dieterlen. 1984. Zwei neue Arten der Gattung Grammomys aus Athiopien und Kenia (Mammalia: Muridae). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, ser. A (Biologie), 347: 1 - 18." year="1984">Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1984</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Thomas, O." box="[743,985,1959,1998]" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" refId="ref353986" refString="Thomas, O. 1915. List of mammals (exclusive of Ungulata) collected on the Upper Congo by Dr. Christy for the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 16: 465 - 481." year="1915">Thomas, 1915</bibRefCitation>
); our study of the
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revealed it is a very young adult
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Matthey" baseAuthorityYear="1963" box="[606,738,2002,2040]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Grammomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rutilans">rutilans</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Tranier, M. &amp; H. Dosso" box="[756,1187,2002,2040]" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" refId="ref358992" refString="Tranier, M., and H. Dosso. 1979. Recherches caryotypiques sur les rongeurs de Cote d'Ivoire: Resultats preliminaires pour les milieux fermes. Annales de l'Universite d'Abidjan, ser. E (Ecologie), 12: 181 - 183." year="1979">Tranier and Dosso (1979)</bibRefCitation>
reported 2N=36 for an individual captured in
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; this contrasts with 2N=50 usually recorded for G.
<taxonomicName authority="(Matthey, 1963)" baseAuthorityName="Matthey" baseAuthorityYear="1963" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Grammomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rutilans">
<emphasis box="[1688,1814,2043,2081]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="594">rutilans</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Matthey, R." box="[399,637,2085,2123]" pageId="93" pageNumber="594" refId="ref231287" refString="Matthey, R. 1963. La formule chromosomique chez sept especes et sous-especes de Murinae Africains. Mammalia, 27: 157 - 176." year="1963">Matthey, 1963</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and either signals exceptional chromosomal variation within
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<emphasis box="[1726,1853,2085,2123]" italics="true" pageId="93" pageNumber="594">rutilans</emphasis>
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or the presence of a morphologically undetected species.
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