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<mods:namePart>Guy G. Musser</mods:namePart>
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Lesson, 1842
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TYPE SPECIES:
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Desmarest, 1822
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SYNONYMS:
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COMMENTS: Opinions on the number of species in the genus have varied from one (
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) to several (
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;
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;
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;
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;
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). The first, and in many ways still most useful, review of
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was made by
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. Several recent attempts to assess variability in the genus using breeding studies (
<bibRefCitation author="Petter, F. &amp; M. Quilici &amp; Ph. Ranque &amp; P. Camerlynck" box="[1223,1528,758,797]" pageId="75" pageNumber="576" refId="ref284732" refString="Petter, F., M. Quilici, Ph. Ranque, and P. Camerlynck. 1969. Croisement d'Arvicanthis niloticus (Rongeurs, Murides) du Senegal et d'Ethiopie. Mammalia, 33: 540 - 541." year="1969">Petter et al., 1969</bibRefCitation>
), morphometric analyses (
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), chromosomal evidence (
<bibRefCitation author="Capanna, E. &amp; M. V. Civitelli" box="[1289,1773,800,839]" pageId="75" pageNumber="576" refId="ref50588" refString="Capanna, E., and M. V. Civitelli. 1988. A cytotaxonomic approach of the systematics of Arvicanthis niloticus (Desmarest 1822) (Mammalia, Rodentia). Tropical Zoology, 1: 29 - 37." year="1988">Capanna and Civitelli, 1988</bibRefCitation>
; Orlov et al., 1992;
<bibRefCitation author="Volobouev, V. T. &amp; E. Viegas-Pequignot &amp; F. Petter &amp; B. Dutrillaux" box="[716,1098,843,881]" pageId="75" pageNumber="576" refId="ref375738" refString="Volobouev, V. T., E. Viegas-Pequignot, F. Petter, and B. Dutrillaux. 1987. Karyotypic diversity and taxonomic problems in the genus Arvicanthis (Rodentia, Muridae). Genetica, 72: 147 - 150." year="1987">Volobouev et al., 1987</bibRefCitation>
; and references therein), and electrophoretic patterns of blood proteins (
<bibRefCitation author="Kaminski, M. &amp; M. Rousseau &amp; F. Petter" box="[869,1225,884,923]" pageId="75" pageNumber="576" refId="ref179566" refString="Kaminski, M., M. Rousseau, and F. Petter. 1984. Electrophoretic studies on blood proteins of Arvicanthis niloticus. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 12: 215 - 224." year="1984">Kaminski et al., 1984</bibRefCitation>
) have provided partial insights into species-diversity within
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,
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as have results obtained based on examination of museum specimens (focusing on qualitative traits as well as external and craniodental measurements), and study of the discussions by
<bibRefCitation author="Dollman, G." box="[1354,1621,1010,1048]" pageId="75" pageNumber="576" refId="ref87523" refString="Dollman, G. 1911. On Arvicanthis abyssinicus and allied East-African species, with descriptions of four new forms. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 8: 334 - 353." year="1911">Dollman (1911)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Hollister, N." pageId="75" pageNumber="576" refId="ref157105" refString="Hollister, N. 1919. East African mammals in the United States National Museum. Part II. Rodentia, Lagomorpha, and Tubulidentata. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 99 (2): 1 - 184." year="1919">Hollister (1919)</bibRefCitation>
,
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, and
<bibRefCitation author="Corbet, G. B. &amp; D. W. Yalden" box="[872,1305,1052,1090]" pageId="75" pageNumber="576" refId="ref68078" refString="Corbet, G. B., and D. W. Yalden. 1972. Recent records of mammals (other than bats) from Ethiopia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 22 (8): 213 - 252." year="1972">Corbet and Yalden (1972)</bibRefCitation>
. Of the five species we list, three
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(
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,
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,
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and
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)
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are easily diagnosed and recognizable, but two
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(
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and
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<taxonomicName authorityName="J. A. Allen" authorityYear="1909" box="[711,844,1136,1173]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Arvicanthis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="75" pageNumber="576" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nairobae">nairobae</taxonomicName>
)
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are not and the geographic ranges and synonyms we provide for each of them are provisional until a sound systematic revision becomes available.
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