treatments-xml/data/79/53/D0/7953D0E138644F7A1FBE9BC3DC8986F6.xml
2024-06-21 12:41:04 +02:00

277 lines
25 KiB
XML
Raw Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters

This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.

<document ID-CLB-Dataset="297097" ID-DOI="10.5281/zenodo.7316535" ID-GBIF-Dataset="f9373c90-73c5-4ee4-b0f8-4c371f527d91" ID-ISBN="0-8018-8221-4" checkinTime="1670905209323" checkinUser="guido" docAuthor="Wilson, Don E. &amp; Reeder, DeeAnn" docDate="2005" docId="7953D0E138644F7A1FBE9BC3DC8986F6" docLanguage="en" docName="MammalSpeciesofTheWorld.2005.Muridae.1189-1531.xml" docOrigin="Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press" docTitle="Myomyscus angolensis" docType="treatment" docVersion="4" id="A2267A57FF8A65DA07E1D2E970F9422A" lastPageNumber="1413" masterDocId="A2267A57FF8A65DA07E1D2E970F9422A" masterDocTitle="Order Rodentia - Family Muridae" masterLastPageNumber="1531" masterPageNumber="1189" pageNumber="1413" updateTime="1716781534040" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:mods id="9B81B1E3C6C725C1DA85F3607D3A8331" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods:titleInfo id="B793FABC35E415A36671F377D18243B2">
<mods:title id="4ECE033E91D926072B916363F7BE868E">Order Rodentia - Family Muridae</mods:title>
</mods:titleInfo>
<mods:name id="74E9575F4372BFFF0678DE3E402C011C" type="personal">
<mods:role id="32098A6F49BA97F9B563A6AF233DC515">
<mods:roleTerm id="5206327ECD27D0367F6C2A5630E25A3A">Author</mods:roleTerm>
</mods:role>
<mods:namePart id="FEE5828625FD1B8E12679D0111DDD6F1">Wilson, Don E.</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>
<mods:name id="09715D038BDC77F57F1A3D7EF6BB547A" type="personal">
<mods:role id="761C8AD6A9B4D469E28A8BFCE9415B7C">
<mods:roleTerm id="BF979C9EBE99FA4A9A66F8497678EE0C">Author</mods:roleTerm>
</mods:role>
<mods:namePart id="43C5DED9C9355E41D9DC546B109BA472">Reeder, DeeAnn</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>
<mods:typeOfResource id="7AF9B38278C5112E136AA655599FEA4F">text</mods:typeOfResource>
<mods:relatedItem id="ECA395FC43F1E5CCF360C9B6400DC9E1" type="host">
<mods:originInfo id="4FD8087E12E10408963EB12F7967DB89">
<mods:dateIssued id="E966AC505F5C8F293D12FC696E5EDFDD">2005</mods:dateIssued>
<mods:publisher id="044DD0858ADFB848017D06CE1E7942DA">The Johns Hopkins University Press</mods:publisher>
<mods:place id="54DFD5196FEC92D2F22088EDDA0A4701">
<mods:placeTerm id="31D9DA89E10844EF8F7464BFF285DF7F">Baltimore</mods:placeTerm>
</mods:place>
</mods:originInfo>
<mods:titleInfo id="D22E584BDD28BA16D85D3B5FAA9B50A7">
<mods:title id="296A5ECFBE7AD230F50CF8EAC0AA864E">Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2</mods:title>
</mods:titleInfo>
<mods:part id="8FD87BE08DD4240C15DF998DE762AFED">
<mods:extent id="1ED17292F235CE054B6A090561B51A7D" unit="page">
<mods:start id="8CDF3A17E9227C16F3D72413C076707F">1189</mods:start>
<mods:end id="60AB011C91C1BED2D93A91A2712F80AA">1531</mods:end>
</mods:extent>
</mods:part>
</mods:relatedItem>
<mods:classification id="84C3459CDA080AE143995FA467186C1C">book chapter</mods:classification>
<mods:identifier id="A1C66B37CA653D0910B60DE8A843A524" type="ISBN">0-8018-8221-4</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier id="277E9C89819E4AE75AE0F76CF25977E8" type="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.7316535</mods:identifier>
</mods:mods>
<treatment id="7953D0E138644F7A1FBE9BC3DC8986F6" ID-GBIF-Taxon="231540267" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:7953D0E138644F7A1FBE9BC3DC8986F6" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7953D0E138644F7A1FBE9BC3DC8986F6" lastPageNumber="1413" pageNumber="1413" sourceUrl="http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13001589">
<subSubSection id="F527B86EF69A9A89949F69A6D20E601E" pageNumber="1413" type="nomenclature">
<paragraph id="D0EF54B1027CA08A0AFCED051E863FCF" pageNumber="1413">
<taxonomicName id="A90AADF1F6C425F1490DF8D35D794E78" ID-CoL="454VC" authority="(Bocage 1890)" baseAuthorityName="Bocage" baseAuthorityYear="1890" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1413" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="DC54867D79EE7120225D22A580A4BA25" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Myomyscus angolensis</emphasis>
(Bocage 1890)
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="849CEBDA1A475D34126BCCD9A01289A3" pageNumber="1413" type="reference_group">
<paragraph id="DDB509BD3C2DC9E1434727211443ED11" pageNumber="1413">
<treatmentCitation id="5A2A58C622606AF448625B51A502CD82" author="Bocage" authority="(Bocage 1890)" baseAuthorityName="Bocage" baseAuthorityYear="1890" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomyscus" journal="J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 2" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="12" pageNumber="1413" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolensis" title="[Myomyscus] angolensis" volume="2" year="1890">
<taxonomicName id="35846D2E8668697826DCF826DDF7593B" ID-CoL="454VC" authority="(Bocage 1890)" baseAuthorityName="Bocage" baseAuthorityYear="1890" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1413" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="5290AC726AEB615A5D015E65508941E5" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">[Myomyscus] angolensis</emphasis>
(Bocage 1890)
</taxonomicName>
,
<bibCitation id="264950A2EA121A59061E9BE5BAEB4081" author="Bocage" journal="J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 2" pageNumber="1413" pagination="12" title="[Myomyscus] angolensis" volume="2" year="1890">
J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat.
<collectingRegion id="F22BE7CAAE02BE0D095F900E3F7950AF" country="Portugal" name="Lisboa">Lisboa</collectingRegion>
, ser. 2, 2: 12
</bibCitation>
</treatmentCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="6916695E559869D079F125792BE6292B" pageNumber="1413" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph id="1D8D0B8B2073E8FF7B9C5D1EAD9B3D0B" pageNumber="1413">
<emphasis id="8B2B3108242884D12FF3C34BC27C47A8" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1413">Type Locality:</emphasis>
<materialsCitation id="AC40D26E56418B600F4F185FC4C7CF42" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="4867324858" country="Angola" elevation="527.0" pageNumber="1413">
<collectingCountry id="E48A8FC082970576BE6A48905DF1E1D5" name="Angola">Angola</collectingCountry>
, Capangombe, interior of Moçâmedes District,
<quantity id="9C2E5F7B40BFD3CB52D36EC60515E698" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.27" unit="m" value="527.0">
<elevation id="FF64632C8D8E8863D400AC65F5A89DC6">527 m</elevation>
</quantity>
(additional information provided by
<bibRefCitation id="BCA53F3D8445B21F6B4CD5C8037C53D1" author="Crawford-Cabral, J." refId="ref70825" refString="Crawford-Cabral, J. 1989 b. Praomys angolensis (Bocage, 1890) and the identity of Praomys angolensis auct. (Rodentia: Muridae), with notes on their systematic positions. Garcia de Orta, Serie de Zoologica, 15 (1; 1988 [1989]): 1 - 10." year="1989">
Crawford-Cabral, 1989
<bibRefCitation id="BE49CDE66B8728E12488686D41DB0FA5" author="Cooper, S. J. B. &amp; T. B. Reardon &amp; J. Skilins" refId="ref67120" refString="Cooper, S. J. B., T. B. Reardon, and J. Skilins. 1998. Molecular systematics of Australian rhinolophid bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 46: 203 - 220." year="1998">
<emphasis id="E9B0B7BE6349CCB0C49069B0072BB559" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">b</emphasis>
, 1998
</bibRefCitation>
</bibRefCitation>
)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="763EE715584642D591F6F9F24BB9852F" pageNumber="1413" type="vernacular_names">
<paragraph id="7B0E93E8FDCC42FF78BF6402044ECF73" pageNumber="1413">
<emphasis id="EF8E945F0A032E2D4CC86E6F3604FB58" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1413">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="670AADC0D94CF57A1196C539C761E6C5" language="eng" pageNumber="1413">Angolan Myomyscus</vernacularName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="56787C19EF688B427A8436957756886C" pageNumber="1413" type="synonym_list">
<paragraph id="556154851D3287962C001EC8B94187E9" pageNumber="1413">
<emphasis id="A4E244C7C96BDBB6680A665638756940" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1413">Synonyms:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="7830F33BAF07FC2A49796BEB88A3828F" authority="(Crawford-Cabral 1989)" baseAuthorityName="Crawford-Cabral" baseAuthorityYear="1989" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1413" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolae">
<emphasis id="D1F28C60C682D9AC256D841C7A522A24" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Myomyscus angolae</emphasis>
(Crawford-Cabral 1989)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="6AEAF6215FA9664B9BA2E6E967F4D321" pageNumber="1413" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="FCF044FE080269ADF09A3D3EF8544A8A" pageNumber="1413">
<emphasis id="BF9481841AB1003BE1543C005EE6B8E1" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1413">Distribution:</emphasis>
W
<collectingCountry id="9863078DF655D8C6D7A9A6E0BDCFA393" name="Angola">Angola</collectingCountry>
, primarily on the Angolan Plateau (
<bibRefCitation id="80B24588645CCAB60332D7B8AAAEDF19" author="Crawford-Cabral, J." refId="ref70924" refString="Crawford-Cabral, J. 1998. The Angolan rodents of the superfamily Muroidea: An account of their distribution. Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, Estudos, Ensaios e Documentos, 161: 223 pp." year="1998">Crawford-Cabral, 1998</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="5A72E0877D62F68FC27264A95AB457FE" pageNumber="1413" type="conservation">
<paragraph id="521C3B757DD13793CE11D10B31EBB502" pageNumber="1413">
<emphasis id="FCC6F0445662E479A77430C20A07FD77" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1413">Conservation:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="B8DDF7A9FF7EFB9E1ACA558D42D6E30B">IUCN</collectionCode>
Lower Risk (lc) as
<taxonomicName id="B5938AC4FE7851206F826CEF446CD47C" baseAuthorityName="Bocage" baseAuthorityYear="1890" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mastomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="7BEF30E4F46C7988D4F354DAFF5AB037" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Mastomys angolensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="D0A31D6E8D1907F9CCE5ED7534EDC3F9" pageNumber="1413" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="80277F6188019A5856700C74740AF69E" pageNumber="1413">
<emphasis id="671F9FB148DD4E2E6B7C977CD8DE818E" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1413">Discussion:</emphasis>
<paragraph id="49807C7B6BF28ADF7D2B12D1780DE0C9" pageNumber="1413">
Our inclusion of this species in
<taxonomicName id="9ABDE5E63D15690ECF106F9B6F387881" authorityName="Shortridge" authorityYear="1942" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="65E5969F1B1F0305F89815DADF1EB38B" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Myomyscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is provisional. It has been placed in
<taxonomicName id="42FD0774A6EC0C6E3A31D1E43F537B3D" authority="(Ellerman, 1941)" baseAuthorityName="Ellerman" baseAuthorityYear="1941" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="D310AA8F3BA6DABB2DC54957D01CFE8A" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Rattus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="9289BAB1BFA7A6D1A182058D998286E6" 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>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="F47E1423CB0603CE38E1DCFD0514C37D" authorityName="Shortridge" authorityYear="1942" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B6B4EB1C571B628B46EF068B9ED74138" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Myomyscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(or
<taxonomicName id="3A6F4E061E4448365DA7E5A5DFB4BF2E" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="74CAC00A4C12540CD2B78DFA249DE0A1" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Myomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) (G. M.
<bibRefCitation id="B807B80BB410E88DA248EB38D6627DB0" author="Allen, G. M." 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>
; D. H. S. Davis, 1965;
<bibRefCitation id="8AA38A5D6F08DE10D223103F05C025C3" author="Hill, J. E. &amp; T. D. Carter" refId="ref152565" refString="Hill, J. E., and T. D. Carter. 1941. The mammals of Angola, Africa. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 78 (1): 1 - 211." year="1941">Hill and Carter, 1941</bibRefCitation>
),
<taxonomicName id="261A329C64188CBA6EBF05B08C88AC99" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Praomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="CF1D9DB8057662547FD05362555463B9" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Praomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see references in
<bibRefCitation id="68E95264A13BBC35985F770B69B02E37" author="Crawford-Cabral, J." refId="ref70825" refString="Crawford-Cabral, J. 1989 b. Praomys angolensis (Bocage, 1890) and the identity of Praomys angolensis auct. (Rodentia: Muridae), with notes on their systematic positions. Garcia de Orta, Serie de Zoologica, 15 (1; 1988 [1989]): 1 - 10." year="1989">
Crawford-Cabral, 1989
<emphasis id="8CBE4622B1A63DC50D2D0C1E1F53DE37" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">b</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
), or regarded as a species of
<taxonomicName id="2FA2F9F645C0C0016E6943652332DD02" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mastomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A98DA70534BDDFF11DD804226561B05B" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Mastomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="8C932E2F07E742769CB6819CEA137002" author="Crawford-Cabral, J." refId="ref70825" refString="Crawford-Cabral, J. 1989 b. Praomys angolensis (Bocage, 1890) and the identity of Praomys angolensis auct. (Rodentia: Muridae), with notes on their systematic positions. Garcia de Orta, Serie de Zoologica, 15 (1; 1988 [1989]): 1 - 10." year="1989">
Crawford-Cabral, 1989
<bibRefCitation id="0D2896F47EA03ED73B548FDBC7630C68" author="Cooper, S. J. B. &amp; T. B. Reardon &amp; J. Skilins" refId="ref67120" refString="Cooper, S. J. B., T. B. Reardon, and J. Skilins. 1998. Molecular systematics of Australian rhinolophid bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 46: 203 - 220." year="1998">
<emphasis id="3E1E93FEDBA1118893E5BD2590B17330" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">b</emphasis>
, 1998
</bibRefCitation>
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="4DBD0373378137035CEA0057521DEBC4" author="Misonne, X." 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>
).
<bibRefCitation id="D4A5FA6AD1CE291C8CA2CB6D7F23FCAD" 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>
and Ellerman et al. (1953) thought it morphologically similar to
<taxonomicName id="8C0C344EB0D8E774FA2879779EB09845" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1914" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="shortridgei">
<emphasis id="488DCED7A7C8A185523A02C86ECF822E" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">M. shortridgei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which they treated as a subspecies of
<taxonomicName id="E5B2787B64FA118C151183CB04B4C9C6" baseAuthorityName="Bocage" baseAuthorityYear="1890" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mastomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="3F0D2B5CE5C3B227C9136DB4CDCB144F" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">M. angolensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In their review of
<taxonomicName id="B5EF3EB18E6832945D6A272BBB4EA5BD" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mastomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="DD551F812301D55E7D80C70B8F1C3FF3" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Mastomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
systematics,
<bibRefCitation id="D42703A929856BF3B246282F377ABCE2" author="Granjon, L. &amp; J. - M. Duplantier &amp; J. Catalan &amp; J. Britton-Davidian" refId="ref127028" refString="Granjon, L., J. - M. Duplantier, J. Catalan, and J. Britton-Davidian. 1997 b. Systematics of the genus Mastomys (Thomas, 1915) (Rodentia: Muridae). A review. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 127 (suppl. 1): 7 - 18." year="1997">
Granjon et al. (1997
<emphasis id="EE29BB9C01656FABD045DCAAB7F9962E" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">b</emphasis>
)
</bibRefCitation>
transferred
<taxonomicName id="38D8470159E4E6CBAB4D9145BC01BE11" baseAuthorityName="Bocage" baseAuthorityYear="1890" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mastomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="EA9DDA01D98FFDB2A4D71E0A5C3F3B5D" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">angolensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to
<taxonomicName id="110C09EBE73B2B6749A268E5AF30E189" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="28E1504D96FB65F42D58C8CD1F0B840E" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Myomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and retained
<taxonomicName id="038A78FE98FB81673F87C13013A0BD75" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1914" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="shortridgei">
<emphasis id="FCAB1021BB6375660CDE83386A9B26AB" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">shortridgei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="85F69751B3EFADCF446F32AA66E369E2" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mastomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="9B8A702700EF02ED355C022D6F340372" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Mastomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Incorporation of
<taxonomicName id="94E8EDB5D2242A604DBAAF0B62AD1C62" baseAuthorityName="Bocage" baseAuthorityYear="1890" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mastomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="CFB5498FA530FAEA62F3BF706F0D5D92" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">M. angolensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in phylogenetic analyses derived from morphological and molecular data is needed to clarify its relationship.
<taxonomicName id="79D98F6C7A5DB5A30D2AF4D32EBC2C89" baseAuthorityName="Bocage" baseAuthorityYear="1890" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="8438317800ECC157DA8FD433DB88219A" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Myomyscus angolensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is either sympatric (
<bibRefCitation id="BB8651CAE46933A9AAF7898DD03FA687" author="Hill, J. E. &amp; T. D. Carter" refId="ref152565" refString="Hill, J. E., and T. D. Carter. 1941. The mammals of Angola, Africa. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 78 (1): 1 - 211." year="1941">Hill and Carter, 1941</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="FFF691A3F37524E51728C9902DC1159F" author="Crawford-Cabral, J." refId="ref70578" refString="Crawford-Cabral, J. 1983. Patterns of allopatric speciation in some Angolan Muridae. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren-Belgique, ser. 8 (Sciences Zoologiques), 237: 153 - 157." year="1983">Crawford-Cabral, 1983</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="ED4107E579D8AE2E18D887A7B3161ACC" author="Crawford-Cabral, J." refId="ref70924" refString="Crawford-Cabral, J. 1998. The Angolan rodents of the superfamily Muroidea: An account of their distribution. Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, Estudos, Ensaios e Documentos, 161: 223 pp." year="1998">1998</bibRefCitation>
) or altitudinally parapatric (specimens in
<collectionCode id="78C766BEA179104E4E3E727AFA0CEAA2" 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>
from Mt Soque) with
<taxonomicName id="7E76FB1735F3892A5E8EEE0033C26779" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1834" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mastomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="natalensis">
<emphasis id="FD74D8E1B33DEE2F1E0EC3484E297E7A" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Mastomys natalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<collectingCountry id="870C36D9C4144A2E4E127D9E17485CCC" name="Angola">Angola</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2161890D5082651E9C545D6F762CA7C8" pageNumber="1413">
In a report devoted to the identity of Bocages
<taxonomicName id="44123E6CEC041589B6CD1AD42837B3F2" authority=", Crawford-Cabral (1989 b)" authorityName=", Crawford-Cabral" authorityYear="1989" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="8B0CC59738232EA80015F194A9961112" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Mus angolensis</emphasis>
,
<bibRefCitation id="B63C0894CCDE940F693B9665459D79B5" author="Crawford-Cabral, J." refId="ref70825" refString="Crawford-Cabral, J. 1989 b. Praomys angolensis (Bocage, 1890) and the identity of Praomys angolensis auct. (Rodentia: Muridae), with notes on their systematic positions. Garcia de Orta, Serie de Zoologica, 15 (1; 1988 [1989]): 1 - 10." year="1989">
Crawford-Cabral (1989
<emphasis id="453B5882EE36464FA42BAA0EE723D360" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">b</emphasis>
)
</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
noted that the type series was destroyed by fire in the Lisbon Museum in 1978. According to the original description the specimens represented a species with a tail much longer than head and body, white feet, soft and thick fur, and five pairs of teats, all characters of other species in
<taxonomicName id="330E21C349CC7ED079545F07581C8B81" authorityName="Shortridge" authorityYear="1942" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F02D700A186CC668E0BF4F16BC893739" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Myomyscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Crawford-Cabral considered Angolan specimens collected after 1890 outside of the Capangombe region and identified as
<taxonomicName id="45B5F058CC6346E1F164FEABC92B2B85" authorityName=", Crawford-Cabral" authorityYear="1989" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="C6E4011107F1779B58B2A611B2BF8ED3" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">angolensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to be another species. He proposed
<taxonomicName id="5BB384AF93F0EDCF8D990C00C5A0E7EA" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Praomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolae">
<emphasis id="707A54548C13CF4F2AF14C70986FA534" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Praomys angolae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
for this rat and considered it a
<taxonomicName id="5431F0BAB554B40A0E96197E21035CAB" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mastomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="CA507FD5A3D9D56CEFAD3C2D40B4086B" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Mastomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, not an example of
<taxonomicName id="BF668899824AEA741B99C872C778F50C" authorityName="Shortridge" authorityYear="1942" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="E03B912586F03F48B5A71F3C12B45E40" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">Myomyscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In our view he simply renamed Bocages
<taxonomicName id="90B2D78A2676CA6EEDC6C04BC6CB094C" authorityName=", Crawford-Cabral" authorityYear="1989" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="17F1587468854A92C806366414DAC3E0" italics="true" pageNumber="1413">angolensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
</document>