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Thomas 1888
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Thomas 1888
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="FFA45D453AD8D59E303550CA0923509E" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1200">Type Species:</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="AD1B994ADF8813A103B6F2739EC3AB35" authority="Thomas 1888" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1888" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Deomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1200" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ferrugineus">
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<emphasis id="B8FF2D6F051760EF59E3522C631069DD" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys ferrugineus</emphasis>
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Thomas 1888
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<emphasis id="EDC7A8845F127E3477F081665CF140DA" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1200">Species and subspecies:</emphasis>
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1 species:
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Species
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<emphasis id="90BB85993B83B2A83519F04D14281CDE" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys ferrugineus</emphasis>
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Thomas 1888
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<emphasis id="9ED063457B81CDAB5FC75B297B8EE29B" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1200">Discussion:</emphasis>
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Described by
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Thomas (1888
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:132)
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as a unique member of a "special section" within
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Muridae (
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<emphasis id="60B8AA39B6C0F1CBD940E148D36A31B0" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomyes</emphasis>
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)
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with molar traits intermediate between cricetines and murines. A year later,
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<bibRefCitation id="B0EB77475F73615F08124F5D2B753BB8" author="Lydekker, R." refId="ref218708" refString="Lydekker, R. 1889. Palaeozoology-Vertebrata. Pp. 889 - 1474, in A manual of palaeontology (H. Alleyne and R. Lydekker, authors). Third Edition, vol. 2, pt. 3. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1624 pp." year="1889">Lydekker (1889)</bibRefCitation>
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referred
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<emphasis id="31B4DC386E9DFAAD29B26DC2B25EC2BE" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys</emphasis>
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to the
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; subsequently,
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placed
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<emphasis id="77BD61A64134D4D184ADE3527E544AB5" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys</emphasis>
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in the Dendromurinae, and with the exception of Ellerman, (1941), there it remained until
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<bibRefCitation id="C74B83CFEC697CB0385CBF6FE393A49E" author="International Union for the Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources" refId="ref168783" refString="International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. 1990. 1990 IUCN red list of threatened animals. I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 228 pp." year="1990">the 1990</bibRefCitation>
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s (see historical discussions in
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<bibRefCitation id="D0EDAAFA024504D287C5A0948B377C98" author="Rosevear, D. R." refId="ref310288" refString="Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604." year="1969">Rosevear, 1969</bibRefCitation>
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, and
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<bibRefCitation id="67682C730F17A66200E35BEAC49E2DB6" author="Carleton, M. D. & G. G. Musser" refId="ref52182" refString="Carleton, M. D., and G. G. Musser. 1984. Muroid rodents. Pp. 289 - 379, in Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and J. K. Jones, Jr., eds.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, 686 pp." year="1984">Carleton and Musser, 1984</bibRefCitation>
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). The morphological traits of
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<emphasis id="44B808DD594FC810FFC4BDBDA387E9B0" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys</emphasis>
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do not fit well in the Dendromurinae (
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<bibRefCitation id="A1E42A6B3AD49728CF3BA84AC0A3F510" author="Carleton, M. D. & G. G. Musser" refId="ref52182" refString="Carleton, M. D., and G. G. Musser. 1984. Muroid rodents. Pp. 289 - 379, in Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and J. K. Jones, Jr., eds.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, 686 pp." year="1984">Carleton and Musser, 1984</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation id="C65FD2B7C2AD0478DF6C9722B460419E" author="Rosevear, D. R." refId="ref310288" refString="Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604." year="1969">Rosevear, 1969</bibRefCitation>
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), which influenced
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<bibRefCitation id="BC7E6EEEB23FA3B60C875DAA62331DD4" author="Ellerman, J. R." 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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to propose
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(primarily because of its peculiar and morphologically primitive conformation of the zygomatic plate) to contain the genus (Ellerman listed Thomas’s
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<emphasis id="B75F98F35C79D620E81830A74314CAB1" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomyes</emphasis>
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as a synonym and was apparently unaware of Lydekker’s
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<taxonomicName id="14A57223A6CAB31B769AD21BA49C3DA3" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1888" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Deomyinae">Deomyinae</taxonomicName>
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). Recent DNA-DNA hybridization experiments (
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<bibRefCitation id="DD291489BD460211544285A651E62ADE" author="Denys, C. & J. Michaux & F. Catzeflis & S. Ducrocq & P. Chevret" refId="ref82363" refString="Denys, C., J. Michaux, F. Catzeflis, S. Ducrocq, and P. Chevret. 1995. Morphological and molecular data against the monophyly of Dendromurinae (Muridae: Rodentia). Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 45: 173 - 190." year="1995">Denys et al., 1995</bibRefCitation>
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) and phylogenetic analyses of mtDNA cytochrome
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<emphasis id="8E8B9BAE182D1809CA236037FED90C8F" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">b</emphasis>
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sequences (E.
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<bibRefCitation id="2FB869171106FE0505ED498FE7624230" author="Verheyen, E. & M. Colyn & W. Verheyen" refId="ref369652" refString="Verheyen, E., M. Colyn, and W. Verheyen. 1995. The phylogeny of some African muroids (Rodentia) based upon partial mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences. Belgium Journal of Zoology, 125 (2): 403 - 407." year="1995">Verheyen et al., 1995</bibRefCitation>
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), nuclear protein-coding DNA sequences (
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,
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<bibRefCitation id="32BA201EDA1A030F399A72F02EDDC558" author="Michaux, J. & F. Catzeflis" refId="ref240457" refString="Michaux, J., and F. Catzeflis. 2000. The bushlike radiation of muroid rodents is exemplified by the molecular phylogeny of the LCAT nuclear gene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 17: 280 - 293." year="2000">Michaux and Catzeflis, 2000</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<collectionCode id="1945D596C419E329D407EAA4C224F406">LCAT</collectionCode>
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and vWF, Michaux et al., 2001), and the combination of DNA/DNA hybridization and mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences (
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<bibRefCitation id="A6EC04E6270917A2DB4712ECB79F38FE" author="Chevret, P. & F. Catzeflis & J. R. Michaux" refId="ref60342" refString="Chevret, P., F. Catzeflis, and J. R. Michaux. 2001. " Acomyinae ": New molecular evidences for a muroid taxon (Rodentia: Muridae). Pp. 109 - 125, in African Small Mammals (C. Denys, L. Granjon, and A. Poulet, eds.), IRD Editions, Collection colloques et seminaires, Paris, 570 pp." year="2001">Chevret et al., 2001</bibRefCitation>
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) consistently placed
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<emphasis id="E0BD98AB153C66503B919C24E9C04312" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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in the same clade as
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<emphasis id="AE8EA9DBA759291DB4DA9DE66E71C71C" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Acomys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="9E65AFB04AB4B7DF011197808C059488" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="86D16CCB28DDDAD00C895A147CA24DFD" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Lophuromys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, and
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<taxonomicName id="C105FF91BD981AD5E2F0204D6337422C" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uranomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="BB71974E3530DCC4B26F2C4053A1693A" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Uranomys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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. Phylogenetic analyses of dental traits, however, did not group
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<emphasis id="B66CE18ADE77BB2A9D2503D9CEBEA17B" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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with the acomyines (
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). Sperm morphology of
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<emphasis id="D6738A810D65E254F899BFD82EA9D863" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys</emphasis>
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is highly derived compared with species of Dendromurinae and indicates it does not belong with that subfamily (
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<bibRefCitation id="BBAFBC91C5DF0A87B73297D01CF6EEFB" author="Breed, W. G." refId="ref41236" refString="Breed, W. G. 1995 d. Variation in sperm head morphology of muroid rodents of Africa: Phylogenetic implications. Pp. 409 - 420, in Advances in spermatozoal phylogeny and taxonomy (B. G. M. Jamieson, J. Ausio, and J. - L. Justine, eds.). Memoires du Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Editions du Museum, Paris, 564 pp." year="1995">
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Breed, 1995
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<emphasis id="DAFE778A745214CA0899164BF9037E76" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">d</emphasis>
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), but Breed did not include it within the
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<emphasis id="4FEED257C100A6F95E7F3BF9AD99F36D" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Acomys-Uranomys</emphasis>
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group he defined using spermatozoal characters.
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<taxonomicName id="6F31D8C36571E58A36CB18D06EED96FF" authorityName=", Thomas" authorityYear="1888" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Deomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ferrugineus">
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<emphasis id="9914148802ACA26A758BFFC4BF1E1885" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys ferrugineus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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feeds mostly on insects, millipedes, centipedes, slugs and crustacea (
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<bibRefCitation id="E9FE871415CCC3E70E99451186A22639" author="Genest-Villard, H." refId="ref116690" refString="Genest-Villard, H. 1980. Regime alimentaire des rongeurs myomorphes de foret equatoriale region du M'Baiki, Republique Centrafricaine. Mammalia, 44: 423 - 484." year="1980">Genest-Villard, 1980</bibRefCitation>
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) and its unique zygomasseteric morphology and molar topography may reflect adaptations to that diet. In reporting their results based on mtDNA sequences, E.
|
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<bibRefCitation id="15B07DCC9F3F5DB1BB848CCFA7AC5023" author="Verheyen, E. & M. Colyn & W. Verheyen" refId="ref370339" refString="Verheyen, E., M. Colyn, and W. Verheyen. 1996 b. A mitochondrial cytochrome b phylogeny confirms the paraphyly of the Dendromurinae Alston, 1896 (Muridae, Rodentia). Mammalia, 60 (4): 780 - 785." year="1996">
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Verheyen et al. (1996
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<emphasis id="3618A2DB8C4577C3057A346D7353B5A9" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">b</emphasis>
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:784)
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</bibRefCitation>
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suggested that "the clustering of
|
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<taxonomicName id="534C22573F21EBAD9438FD65627997D0" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1888" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Deomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="97AC7579F4F8D404DF7412E90CEED397" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
with the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="61B3F69EFA771F3AD72FE00817FB6AA9" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="6711CDFD3B7382C5F559B67AE7B6964D" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Lophuromys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
clade may be less surprising than has been suggested elsewhere (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="4D4CC03C9692CE86F857EAA4A5EDDF15" author="Denys, C. & J. Michaux & F. Catzeflis & S. Ducrocq & P. Chevret" refId="ref82363" refString="Denys, C., J. Michaux, F. Catzeflis, S. Ducrocq, and P. Chevret. 1995. Morphological and molecular data against the monophyly of Dendromurinae (Muridae: Rodentia). Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 45: 173 - 190." year="1995">Denys et al., 1995</bibRefCitation>
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||
). The
|
||
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|
||
<emphasis id="713CA71F7A6F04604008F31EFD9E7466" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
skull is not only very distinct from that of other dendromurines, but its zygomatic plate and internal organs (stomach) have been reported to resemble the same features in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B8AF4DCBB2B38ED4091070F8216EED0E" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="7F385D3D0F79A450952D8E1BA1E5E138" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Lophuromys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
." Even
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="813C1996AEFA0F1C718A569B9F1D6577" author="Ellerman, J. R." 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 (1941:317)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
admitted that the zygomatic plate of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="AB414B2F0F7BFC04452FE55B1DEB2B7F" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1888" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Deomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="458A0A0F8F10693421A44FB61D66A0CB" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
resembled that of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="466FFB397A9A24CAABD80899989071E5" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="3CB93150637C2D3829947C5E3DBD060D" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Lophuromys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="95DF3794D19E2148C183F0DEF3A178E2" author="Osgood, W. H." refId="ref269005" refString="Osgood, W. H. 1936. New and imperfectly known small mammals from Africa. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 20: 217 - 256." year="1936">Osgood (1936:238)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
described how the pelage of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="5306AA081F5ADC652F92406D23272A39" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1888" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Deomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="A53DA72C7E018AD7E3B902D0D6E84CD6" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has a "more superficial resemblance to
|
||
<taxonomicName id="ACE06C7081C0E8051930BF8D5AD50CC4" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Acomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="316C0CAF14500F36C18C1405AD681A97" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Acomys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
than to any other well-known genus," pointed to configuration of auditory bulla and petrosal as being similar in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="698130102775866B85E6AAF9FA855414" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1888" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Deomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="D03ED996FE55508A3A42E8EE3D3AF1CB" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Deomys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="AB9BF5541D4035B6217FCDD9158B3C18" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="DBEDAE29EACD1C553AC8314F580F0D8D" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Lophuromys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, and noted that
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="F0068B0162E54FCE04CEB5CFAABFB217" author="Tullberg, T." refId="ref360768" refString="Tullberg, T. 1899. Uber das system der Nagetiere. Eine phylogenetische studie. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarium Upsaliensis, Ser. 3, 18: 1 - 514." year="1899">Tullberg (1899)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
commented on the similarity in anterior portion of skull and internal organs with
|
||
<taxonomicName id="55067A8961F38BA3956A2BC0EF8A6A3E" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="7FD293114B34EE53B13D063BA391ABE4" italics="true" pageNumber="1200">Lophuromys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
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