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<mods:title>Order Rodentia - Family Muridae</mods:title>
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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:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Michael D. Carleton</mods:namePart>
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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:title>Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)</mods:title>
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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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<treatmentCitation author="Thomas" authority="Thomas, 1920" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[236,1252,850,888]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Thallomys" journal="Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="141" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus" title="Thallomys" volume="5" year="1920">
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<taxonomicName authority="Thomas, 1920" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[236,649,850,888]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Thallomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[236,401,850,888]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">Thallomys</emphasis>
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Thomas, 1920
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<bibCitation author="Thomas" box="[673,1252,850,888]" journal="Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" pagination="141" title="Thallomys" volume="5" year="1920">Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 5:141</bibCitation>
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<paragraph blockId="167.[236,1887,850,1851]" box="[318,1041,891,929]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">
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TYPE SPECIES:
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<taxonomicName authority="Thomas, 1882" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1882" box="[531,1031,891,929]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nigricauda">
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<emphasis box="[531,785,891,929]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">Mus nigricauda</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Thomas, O." box="[798,1031,891,929]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref351527" refString="Thomas, O. 1882. On African mongooses. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1882: 59 - 93." year="1882">Thomas, 1882</bibRefCitation>
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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<subSubSection pageId="167" pageNumber="668" type="discussion">
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<paragraph blockId="167.[236,1887,850,1851]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">
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COMMENTS: After being proposed as a genus by Thomas (1920),
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[1404,1567,933,972]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Thallomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[1404,1567,933,972]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">Thallomys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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was used in checklists (e.g.,
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<bibRefCitation author="Allen, G. M." box="[679,875,975,1013]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" 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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;
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<bibRefCitation author="Ellerman, J. R." box="[895,1146,975,1013]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" 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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) until Ellerman et al. (1953) united it with subgenus
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" box="[576,734,1016,1055]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Aethomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[576,734,1016,1055]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">Aethomys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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of
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<emphasis box="[792,1085,1016,1055]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Musser" baseAuthorityYear="1981" box="[792,897,1016,1055]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Rattus</taxonomicName>
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.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[922,1085,1016,1055]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Thallomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Thallomys</taxonomicName>
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was reinstated by
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<bibRefCitation author="Lundholm, B. G." box="[1414,1730,1016,1055]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref217818" refString="Lundholm, B. G. 1955 c. Remarks on some South African Murinae. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 22: 321 - 329." year="1955">Lundholm (1955c)</bibRefCitation>
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, who also suggested it was closely related to
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<emphasis box="[1088,1287,1058,1096]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Hatt" baseAuthorityYear="1940" box="[1088,1283,1058,1096]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Thamnomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Thamnomys</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Misonne, X." box="[1302,1565,1058,1096]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref243286" refString="Misonne, X. 1969. African and Indo-Australian Muridae: Evolutionary trends. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Serie IN- 8, Sciences Zoologiques, 172: 1 - 219." year="1969">Misonne (1969)</bibRefCitation>
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pointed out that
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[403,568,1100,1138]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Thallomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[403,568,1100,1138]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">Thallomys</emphasis>
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has nothing to do with
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<emphasis box="[982,1097,1100,1138]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">Rattus,</emphasis>
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and is most closely related to Tertiary european
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<emphasis box="[575,797,1141,1179]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">Parapodemus,</emphasis>
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an evaluation based on molar occlusal patterns. Although clearly unrelated to
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<emphasis box="[754,1059,1183,1222]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">Rattus, Thallomy's</emphasis>
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phylogenetic position within the diversity of African murines is still unresolved.
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<paragraph blockId="167.[236,1887,850,1851]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">
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Early checklists and faunal accounts recognized several species (
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<bibRefCitation author="Ellerman, J. R." box="[1569,1829,1267,1305]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" 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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;
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<bibRefCitation author="Roberts, A." box="[403,639,1309,1347]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref306581" refString="Roberts, A. 1951. The mammals of South Africa. Trustees of " The mammals of South Africa " book fund, Johannesburg, 700 pp." year="1951">Roberts, 1951</bibRefCitation>
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), but for last 20-30 years,
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<emphasis box="[1092,1255,1309,1347]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">Thallomys</emphasis>
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has been either treated as monotypic (D. H. S. Davis, 1965;
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<bibRefCitation author="Meester, J. A. J. & I. L. Rautenbach & N. J. Dippenaar & C. M. Baker" box="[979,1313,1352,1390]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref236076" refString="Meester, J. A. J., I. L. Rautenbach, N. J. Dippenaar, and C. M. Baker. 1986. Classification of southern African mammals. Transvaal Museum Monograph, 5: 1 - 359." year="1986">Meester et al., 1986</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation author="Misonne, X." box="[1334,1587,1352,1390]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" 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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), or as containing at least two species (
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<bibRefCitation author="Petter, F." box="[956,1178,1393,1431]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref283988" refString="Petter, F. 1973 a. Capture de Thallomys paedulcus scotti en Ethiopie. Mammalia, 37: 360 - 361." year="1973">Petter, 1973a</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation author="Skinner, J. D. & R. H. N. Smithers" box="[1197,1673,1393,1431]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref329484" refString="Skinner, J. D., and R. H. N. Smithers. 1990. The mammals of the southern African subregion. Second ed. University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 771 pp." year="1990">Skinner and Smithers, 1990</bibRefCitation>
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). That considerable and significant morphological diversity exists in the genus has been acknowedged. D. H. S. Davis (1965), for example, recognized five groups of subspecies.
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<bibRefCitation author="Petter, F." box="[610,846,1518,1556]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref283988" refString="Petter, F. 1973 a. Capture de Thallomys paedulcus scotti en Ethiopie. Mammalia, 37: 360 - 361." year="1973">Petter (1973a)</bibRefCitation>
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clearly demonstrated that at least two species could be diagnosed. Regional faunal reports of southern African mammals discussed presence of two distinct kinds (
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<bibRefCitation author="Skinner, J. D. & R. H. N. Smithers" box="[784,1255,1602,1640]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref329484" refString="Skinner, J. D., and R. H. N. Smithers. 1990. The mammals of the southern African subregion. Second ed. University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 771 pp." year="1990">Skinner and Smithers, 1990</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation author="Smithers, R. H. N. & V. J. Wilson" box="[1274,1739,1602,1640]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref331985" refString="Smithers, R. H. N., and V. J. Wilson. 1979. Checklist and atlas of the mammals of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Museum Memoir, National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, Salisbury, 9: 1 - 193." year="1979">Smithers and Wilson, 1979</bibRefCitation>
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).
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<bibRefCitation author="Meester, J. A. J. & I. L. Rautenbach & N. J. Dippenaar & C. M. Baker" box="[402,751,1644,1681]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref236076" refString="Meester, J. A. J., I. L. Rautenbach, N. J. Dippenaar, and C. M. Baker. 1986. Classification of southern African mammals. Transvaal Museum Monograph, 5: 1 - 359." year="1986">Meester et al. (1986)</bibRefCitation>
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announced the need for revision of
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<emphasis box="[1382,1557,1644,1681]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">Thallomys,</emphasis>
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and that both morphological and chromosomal data suggested the presence of two species (see
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<bibRefCitation author="Gordon, D. H." box="[401,640,1728,1767]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref126019" refString="Gordon, D. H. 1987. Discovery of another species of tree rat. Transvaal Museum Bulletin, 22: 30 - 32." year="1987">Gordon, 1987</bibRefCitation>
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). We list four species. Our review is based on original descriptions of taxa, Roberts' (1951) useful monograph and other regional faunal reports, large collections of specimens, and
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<typeStatus box="[921,1089,1812,1851]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668">holotypes</typeStatus>
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. Gastric anatomy reported by
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<bibRefCitation author="Perrin, M. R." box="[1619,1841,1812,1851]" pageId="167" pageNumber="668" refId="ref280722" refString="Perrin, M. R. 1986. Gastric anatomy and histology of an arboreal, folivorous murid rodent: The black-tailed tree rat Thallomys paedulcus (Sundevall, 1846). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 51: 224 - 236." year="1986">Perrin (1986)</bibRefCitation>
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