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<emphasis id="4DB4F293AC8D00C2F236F05057588B70" italics="true" pageNumber="940">Dendromus nyasae</emphasis>
Thomas 1916
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<taxonomicName id="38790DCE07615AE22A277F362DCEA3F0" ID-CoL="34QND" authority="Thomas 1916" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1916" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="940" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nyasae">
<emphasis id="46A5C2F349787993F802774BD2A53079" italics="true" pageNumber="940">Dendromus nyasae</emphasis>
Thomas 1916
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="C53DF80CD3670255A4CACC038D818158" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="940">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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N
<collectingCountry id="B97F747707749D0F37917794C1657462" name="Malawi">Malawi</collectingCountry>
, Nyika Plateau,
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(
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).
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<paragraph id="C8CEA838396E29BE2550097452D9246F" pageNumber="940">
<emphasis id="EDBC3EB76465185E42184649BBBA9BC4" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="940">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
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<collectingRegion id="B1E87A5BDF4E9CA72A32D794E2D7073E" country="Democratic Republic of the Congo" name="Sud-Kivu">Kivu</collectingRegion>
African Climbing Mouse
</vernacularName>
.
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<paragraph id="946D4567477C790CDDFE82B1069D8016" pageNumber="940">
<emphasis id="BADFEBC336779D6B383524C1A625A268" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="940">Synonyms:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="3996A26B0E15F567A58C7F56269CEA86" authority="Bohmann 1939" authorityName="Bohmann" authorityYear="1939" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="940" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hintoni">
<emphasis id="722DFEB48D38AF0AB1CBDCC42015593B" italics="true" pageNumber="940">Dendromus hintoni</emphasis>
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;
<taxonomicName id="B0EBF15BBA9764FD442CF458ABCA3CC7" authority="Thomas 1916" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1916" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="940" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kivu">
<emphasis id="CD65B59719CBFC51A6E91B1132313ED8" italics="true" pageNumber="940">Dendromus kivu</emphasis>
Thomas 1916
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="4D9E47AEF3AFE05C703ACA413AF134B2" authority="Osgood 1936" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="940" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lunaris">
<emphasis id="DCC5ED73B42074A16BCDB223CA4B624D" italics="true" pageNumber="940">Dendromus lunaris</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="5B1A537EF68764481EDDC43C41E722CF" 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</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="D6B52E0BA8978223AC62D0208987FCBD" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="940">Distribution:</emphasis>
Western Rift Mtns—Ruwenzoris in E Dem. Rep.
<collectingCountry id="8CB55BB65B022BF6EBDAF2145F6BB04C" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congo</collectingCountry>
and W
<collectingCountry id="B65B077324F9D66C6A8CAA9648FB4569" name="Uganda">Uganda</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="5A3950C78FC4F84C56C6F59F50B71FC3" author="Kerbis Peterhans, J. C. &amp; R. M. Kityo &amp; W. T. Stanley &amp; P. K. Austin" refId="ref183006" refString="Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., R. M. Kityo, W. T. Stanley, and P. K. Austin. 1998. Small mammals along an elevational gradient in Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda. Pp. 149 - 171, in The Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda. Exploration, environment and biology. Conservation, management and community relations (H. Osmaston, J. Tukahirwa, C. Basalirwa, and J. Nyakaana, eds.). Department of Geography, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 395 pp." year="1998">Kerbis Peterhans et al., 1998</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="06F93BE298D2FF5AA8E4102B1799C68B" 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</bibRefCitation>
;
<collectionCode id="553043FE160A5B7A25A87E1796633847" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" name="American Museum of Natural History" type="">AMNH</collectionCode>
and
<collectionCode id="9B617C9B991156602EF45742B26E9679" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" name="Field Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">FMNH</collectionCode>
), south through the E Dem. Rep.
<collectingCountry id="584BA1CADC0797276AD621186534AA81" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congo</collectingCountry>
(
<collectingRegion id="8AFB4F5D1BFD2AC17B0FA1FC761DE07C" country="Democratic Republic of the Congo" name="Sud-Kivu">Kivu region</collectingRegion>
;
<collectionCode id="0CC2C10F2339F06C60541F47E3A0A204" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" name="American Museum of Natural History" type="">AMNH</collectionCode>
,
<collectionCode id="5B1E62376B2877999DF924F7AE42A46B">BMNH</collectionCode>
, and
<collectionCode id="DD1C451DF6BA1873BC965DE8A0EEB2FE" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:33791" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:33791" name="Museum of Comparative Zoology" type="Museum">MCZ</collectionCode>
) to the Marungu Mtns in SE Dem. Rep.
<collectingCountry id="7CC9385C3A56379E939DDB608D909252" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congo</collectingCountry>
(
<collectionCode id="8419ED9F0DF49D859DE16407BEE02000" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" name="American Museum of Natural History" type="">AMNH</collectionCode>
55735), Mbizi Mtns in W
<collectingCountry id="F38639DCBF4D5B9F6730B0E1A57FFB43" name="Tanzania">Tanzania</collectingCountry>
(
<collectionCode id="E456EE8029948655F745B94B0839F4D5" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" name="Field Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">FMNH</collectionCode>
), SW
<collectingCountry id="09387E0D57CDB2EECB3C863CDA9D268E" name="Tanzania">Tanzania</collectingCountry>
(Rungwe and Ukinga;
<collectionCode id="DA8F5DE1EEE70A48D4869A150A88E99D" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925" name="American Museum of Natural History" type="">AMNH</collectionCode>
,
<collectionCode id="A4E11495E26619462DC2AB7D08A41613" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" name="Field Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">FMNH</collectionCode>
,
<collectionCode id="096F6C23B03835B3F13D6C6933D0A1B5" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:33791" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:33791" name="Museum of Comparative Zoology" type="Museum">MCZ</collectionCode>
; listed by G. M.
<bibRefCitation id="7EE682DA31004A681D86CACECEEB7334" author="Allen, G. M. &amp; A. Loveridge" refId="ref5008" refString="Allen, G. M., and A. Loveridge. 1933. Reports on the scientific results of an expedition to the southwestern highlands of Tanganyika Territory. II. Mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 75: 47 - 140." year="1933">Allen and Loveridge, 1933</bibRefCitation>
, as
<taxonomicName id="615AAAE2DCC87F91B75B1561579D7719" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1916" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kivu">
<emphasis id="4BB96D2460C93D4070E8F2C17CC806A5" italics="true" pageNumber="940">kivu</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), Nyika Plateau in NE
<collectingCountry id="5843A85E8ACA560C82CCE12D279855B3" name="Zambia">Zambia</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="D9DC8C60F04D73AF3C0807F9B431253D" author="Ansell, W. F. H." refId="ref11178" refString="Ansell, W. F. H. 1978. The mammals of Zambia. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Chilanga, 126 pp." year="1978">Ansell, 1978</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="E99E637801D169D8B13231E3C41D4427" author="Ansell, W. F. H. &amp; P. D. H. Ansell" refId="ref11343" refString="Ansell, W. F. H., and P. D. H. Ansell. 1973. Mammals of the north-eastern montane areas of Zambia. Puku, 7: 21 - 69." year="1973">Ansell and Ansell, 1973</bibRefCitation>
) and N
<collectingCountry id="715ED085A26600BD34354CE5B1F36E53" name="Malawi">Malawi</collectingCountry>
, and highlands in S
<collectingCountry id="63389FCC6BE6F1ED2124BE1DA140CDC4" name="Malawi">Malawi</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="3849C20D9CC2E4FA352BA6AFB4C38C33" author="Ansell, W. F. H. &amp; R. J. Dowsett" refId="ref11419" refString="Ansell, W. F. H., and R. J. Dowsett. 1988. Mammals of Malawi: An annotated check list and atlas. Trendrine Press, Zennor, St. Ives, United Kingdom, 170 pp." year="1988">Ansell and Dowsett, 1988</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="570534A4C07637930C30ADA9A90BB475" author="Lawrence, B. &amp; A. Loveridge" refId="ref207132" refString="Lawrence, B., and A. Loveridge. 1953. Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. I. Mammals from Nyasaland and Tete. With notes on the genus Otomys. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 110: 1 - 80." year="1953">Lawrence and Loveridge, 1953</bibRefCitation>
); also through the Eastern Arc Mtns, E
<collectingCountry id="38707CF25337B6008B4705749C7DA707" name="Tanzania">Tanzania</collectingCountry>
(Uzungwa Mtns,
<collectionCode id="0741AE7325D61B6BC7AEED9352E39164" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" name="Field Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">FMNH</collectionCode>
and
<collectionCode id="93F79366666D75E7516496E72E48953D" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:33791" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:33791" name="Museum of Comparative Zoology" type="Museum">MCZ</collectionCode>
; Uluguru highlands,
<typeStatus id="876084492D0EB98BABFF66C786FDE487">holotype</typeStatus>
of
<taxonomicName id="A84964578C3F485F75A2C59D161A6B59" authorityName="Bohmann" authorityYear="1939" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hintoni">
<emphasis id="E344643B4FCAC1C449E555ED818A94CB" italics="true" pageNumber="940">hintoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; Ukaguru Mtns,
<collectionCode id="E8C07E3074389A32BA733F6083917044" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" name="Field Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">FMNH</collectionCode>
; Nguru Mtns,
<collectionCode id="061BA63EB1BFD92250B32814A069E8D1" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34795" name="Field Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">FMNH</collectionCode>
; South Pare Mtns, Stanley et al., 1998
<emphasis id="4E87CFB0B697C92C1047C11227A3DCAE" italics="true" pageNumber="940">a</emphasis>
, as
<taxonomicName id="5304991659949F34F418E730796B49A5" baseAuthorityName="Brants" baseAuthorityYear="1827" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mesomelas">
<emphasis id="3289BFA24E22254E22F507724A88341C" italics="true" pageNumber="940">mesomelas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="7BDFDB5D8C9EA680EB5C9532E6EE70D9" pageNumber="940" type="conservation">
<paragraph id="8276506EEC67CE18481CEC790275673F" pageNumber="940">
<emphasis id="E883B00052EF48EF27EE95ED07DC4544" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="940">Conservation:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="6482F9D2519FFFDBB851AD6B27FF59EA">IUCN</collectionCode>
Lower Risk (lc) as
<taxonomicName id="B05D265596F6474F2497B5F91632C74C" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1916" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kivu">
<emphasis id="AFE4E876604C2AEEF34567100886187C" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. kivu</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="598B9C64224D49D6FF53084DEA4646E6" pageNumber="940" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="02BE53536039E2C2297253C3A6C223B1" pageNumber="940">
<emphasis id="5C4763FE7690EB19E6097D0A67E6123E" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="940">Discussion:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="5D3DB769FC6EA6994803F0D62D66485C" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1916" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nyasae">
<emphasis id="07DE02EC84810AF18280F18E7B2EDB08" italics="true" pageNumber="940">Dendromus nyasae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the three names in synonymy (based on study of all
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) have been treated as subspecies of the southern African
<taxonomicName id="EBF6EC15347D1E2E7723B0C446BB3D04" baseAuthorityName="Brants" baseAuthorityYear="1827" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mesomelas">
<emphasis id="606493927EE5440F15D88839CBC2EF49" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. mesomelas</emphasis>
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(
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;
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). The latter is larger in external dimensions; has longer pelage with upperparts brighter and buffier (darker, tawny hue in
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<emphasis id="F1BE357296F2B6179FE9E683D1AC5972" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. nyasae</emphasis>
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), underparts white usually suffused with pale buff or ochraceous (dark grayish white in
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<emphasis id="ED6089CA44F8C5832379F829AAAF01D3" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. nyasae</emphasis>
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); its skull is more robust with narrow interorbital and postorbital regions and more flaring zygomatic arches (interorbit constricted but postorbit wider), longer molar rows; and occurs commonly in lowlands (
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<emphasis id="B8E4D9D731D3287F1B8DF61E5F6EC00B" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. nyasae</emphasis>
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is strictly montane).
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Ansell (1974
<emphasis id="4C3318C42BFA01CB88C0C0742DFF6B1B" italics="true" pageNumber="940">b</emphasis>
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,
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) noted that specimens from NW
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identified as
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<emphasis id="7516B7B54F3C3F23F77A3E551115BB3C" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. mesomelas major</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(=
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<emphasis id="3E48E5978898E5F14C480E47A15159C4" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. mesomelas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) were &quot;quite distinct&quot; from
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<emphasis id="A84E9FA5A9DAD639D7C01057DC77ECC4" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. mesomelas nyasae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(=
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<emphasis id="9AB5EAC152C7D0F42FA63ADD54864529" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. nyasae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) on the Nyika Plateau, NE
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. In the Western Rift mtns,
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<emphasis id="7478A91310153C648F42BA00C700178A" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. nyasae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
may occur sympatrically with
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<emphasis id="EAB6C297327E36130D1C912A22D6D0F2" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. insignis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see account). In morphology,
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<emphasis id="F4EEC2810A97FF6BC88CD50491C22A45" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. nyasae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
seems to be most closely related to the small-bodied
<taxonomicName id="5B26BF9AD1812BB86C9853A7539A510B" authorityName="Hill and Carter" authorityYear="1937" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="vernayi">
<emphasis id="5E6F9EA2684FB73B4DD51BC130101610" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. vernayi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the Angolan Plateau,
<taxonomicName id="FC8918F807BA75F7F2D83AF86321D25F" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Nesomyidae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="oreas">
<emphasis id="34BB193C77379F88D3B5F0C5BC1C85F8" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. oreas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the E
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mountains, and the larger-bodied
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<emphasis id="B2F110EA52ECE47AA1A4EFE7ACF74DFC" italics="true" pageNumber="940">D. insignis</emphasis>
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from the mountains of East Africa. The four species may form a monophyletic group restricted to mountains and plateaus north of the Southern African Subregion and south of the Sahara.
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