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<emphasis id="DF1DF968E1F7EE24F9FD2B18EB9B4018" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">Lophuromys (Lophuromys) brevicaudus</emphasis>
Osgood 1936
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<treatmentCitation id="D7F76CD9103CCA2E902D685A5B8ACE9E" author="Osgood" authority="Osgood 1936" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" journal="Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist." kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="241" pageNumber="1203" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brevicaudus" subGenus="Lophuromys" title="Lophuromys (Lophuromys) brevicaudus" volume="20" year="1936">
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<emphasis id="3D1966F19372E3CA6D44DFB81A6E2496" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">Lophuromys (Lophuromys) brevicaudus</emphasis>
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,
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Zool. Ser. Field
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. Nat. Hist., 20: 241
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.
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<emphasis id="36CEA4A749BE6F93ABA28E59EE91B3BB" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1203">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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, Arusi (=Arsi) Province, Chilalo Mtns, Mt Albasso.
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<emphasis id="F8C8AF1CA6880BC7E82BDF9D51793CB4" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1203">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="9C1D8951CADDB175A48B7EA031E33086" language="eng" pageNumber="1203">Short-tailed Brush-furred Rat</vernacularName>
.
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Endemic to SC Ethiopian highlands on east side of Ethiopian Rift Valley between 2400 and
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; recorded from the Chilalo and Gedeb Mtns by
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and from the Bale Mtns by
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Lavrenchenko et al. (1998
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="DE9D5D914F75CBDE092ECF298C56BE26" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1203">Discussion:</emphasis>
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Subgenus
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,
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species group (
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Lavrenchenko et al., 1998
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, 2000). Described as a distinctive species (
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), but later included in
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<emphasis id="BCE3E21E6228371128817CBD054773BC" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. flavopunctatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="C7198A95E1647AC73391E2E75DE10DE4" 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="309F8E50B77F98739CBFE8800BD7CC11" author="Yalden, D. W. &amp; M. J. Largen &amp; D. Kock" refId="ref397218" refString="Yalden, D. W., M. J. Largen, and D. Kock. 1976. Catalogue of the mammals of Ethiopia. 2. Insectivora and Rodentia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 8 (1): 1 - 118." year="1976">Yalden et al., 1976</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="781CB123BBAA094D9E30F779773547B1" author="Yalden, D. W. &amp; M. J. Largen &amp; D. Kock &amp; J. C. Hillman" refId="ref397425" refString="Yalden, D. W., M. J. Largen, D. Kock and J. C. Hillman. 1996. Catalogue of the mammals of Ethiopia and Eritrea. 7. Revised checklist, zoogeography and conservation. Tropical Zoology, 9: 73 - 164." year="1996">1996</bibRefCitation>
). Allozymic (
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), chromosomal (
<bibRefCitation id="1962194463132945541D14DC45846610" author="Aniskin, V. M. &amp; L. A. Lavrenchenko &amp; A. A. Varshavskii &amp; A. N. Milishnikov" refId="ref10826" refString="Aniskin, V. M., L. A. Lavrenchenko, A. A. Varshavskii, and A. N. Milishnikov. 1997. [Karyotypic differentiation of three harsh-furred mouse species of genus Lophuromys (Murinae, Rodentia) from the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia]. Genetika, 33 (7): 967 - 973 (in Russian, with English summary)." year="1997">Aniskin et al., 1997</bibRefCitation>
), and morphological and morphometric data (
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Lavrenchenko et al., 1998
<emphasis id="BC933E88704580B5030D0A0664763EAE" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">b</emphasis>
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; W.
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) separate
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<emphasis id="93E9A437B063EF33F4EA3694426E0155" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">brevicaudus</emphasis>
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as a species.
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Lavrenchenko et al. (1998
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noted that
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<emphasis id="53974D3FEBE1445FAF5CEABDA20F91A0" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. brevicauda</emphasis>
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is diurnal and one of the most common small mammals occurring in the
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heath zone (
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) in the Harenna Forest on southern slopes of the Bale Mtns. At about
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,
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<emphasis id="AB8F167D47B212176BFF237C213E098C" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. brevicauda</emphasis>
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s range narrowly overlaps lower margin of the altitudinal distribution of
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<emphasis id="0B219E211F3D7A3B02D9F9A66F3F5706" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. melanonyx</emphasis>
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. At the lower end of
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s altitudinal range, between 2400 and
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2760
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the
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belt on southern slope of Bale Massif, it coexists with
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<emphasis id="B3E4BC1FD6001A0920280FB07DE1AA2C" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. chrysopus</emphasis>
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(Lavrenchenko, 2000;
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Lavrenchenko et al., 1998
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).
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Allozymic data (
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) indicate that
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diverged basally to the sister species
<taxonomicName id="E54241E04FDD86F02F2D3D0513318188" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brevicaudus">
<emphasis id="CE7CDAC8093894B3381C1CD3364D4A05" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. brevicaudus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="61BCE0D315109C6DCC9B7D3D79318A85" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="chrysopus">
<emphasis id="EBE15F01432C9E0E44B2E79BC306CD5B" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. chrysopus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<taxonomicName id="109548B07042D238832EF2DCC4C61C38" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="chrysopus">
<emphasis id="783640609543CC9CECEA96F64DD96BD8" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">Lophuromys chrysopus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="317E7823AD0203B689B79B3D6788ABAD" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brevicaudus">
<emphasis id="1FD0AAFC1453A4E96C04C8EA7F35DEC4" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. brevicaudus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="8B26DD11014BB8F43C76084FE53C06B2" authorityName="F. Petter" authorityYear="1972" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="melanonyx">
<emphasis id="A8D420CBA0D113F80BA8EA88B3AD7D69" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. melanonyx</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
&quot;occur in the Bale Mountains, replacing each other in the different altitudinal belts (tropical forestheathlandafro-alpine zone) each time with a small overlap suggesting an adaptive pattern of speciation&quot; (
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Lavrenchenko et al., 1998
<emphasis id="AA3DFACDD1F2F090C3A4D9D183106B1C" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">b</emphasis>
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). Multivariate analyses of morphometric data (
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) from seven geographic samples of
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<emphasis id="0377FC9AEEFA0272EEE2488B55BF64FF" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. flavopunctatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="B3E6F1EDFCA87D4B814E4C96AA54AF7D" authorityName="F. Petter" authorityYear="1972" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="melanonyx">
<emphasis id="C6F2933C4E6B6B6A5B11DD95F80C9109" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. melanonyx</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
uncovered three groups:
<taxonomicName id="A504608176BF00A52ACA327CF23CE394" authorityName="F.Petter" authorityYear="1972" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="megalonyx">
<emphasis id="8227CB8E04F2136F74A4797C919E8946" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. megalonyx</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; a second cluster of samples from N, C, and W
<collectingCountry id="9F5312D3F44143DC12C3ABEDCACB6A84" name="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</collectingCountry>
; and a third assemblage from the Bale Mtns.
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Lavrenchenko et al. (1998
<emphasis id="CDF8A7726835E66015321266651D9F55" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">b</emphasis>
)
</bibRefCitation>
thought the Bale Mtns sample to be a mixture of
<taxonomicName id="11EAC31C8B3050D9290319A784794303" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brevicauda">
<emphasis id="DA703C9D8BDE46FE864B529A42ABFD88" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. brevicauda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="7FF3511EEC604FE90118C5CB3599DEE1" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="chrysopus">
<emphasis id="3933F2DD898D18369F4F8423A5E4DC3B" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. chrysopus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="82404AF4169122DF80E25B6F0E757B43" pageNumber="1203">
<taxonomicName id="E8D4E054959B7F4C6CFAFB9D8B0418F1" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brevicaudus">
<emphasis id="8EC1D28EA4826B795509E1D8407AF082" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">Lophuromys brevicaudus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, along with
<taxonomicName id="A64431211EB0FED0A56919C0078A763F" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1888" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavopunctatus">
<emphasis id="EE0F4CE30C2B409AA6FF1881C038260E" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. flavopunctatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="5D139A13C9990014FD85AFA51D0E0293" authorityName="F. Petter" authorityYear="1972" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="melanonyx">
<emphasis id="E92AA2FE8C5F68075A5DEAEE0AE3936D" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. melanonyx</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, are Ethiopian endemics and members of the strictly Ethiopian
<taxonomicName id="31394C0FAD79814EEA9774C54168BE7D" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1888" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavopunctatus">
<emphasis id="E148E1C7B899D5B30523B040C48156D6" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. flavopunctatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species group. The other two Ethiopian endemic
<taxonomicName id="548033D11AD90A0C2811D892F32066E1" authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1874" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1642674DCD8AC52274A7C90D51235482" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">Lophuromys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="8D1AB66536048FC50AA2E091FD92CCD0" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1906" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brunneus">
<emphasis id="E9F163E0C400E2E471A0DF2215F8EB6C" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">brunneus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="182DE9A841E407BA70455B56E19ADDB3" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="chrysopus">
<emphasis id="85D9FEFC64B771216BA7EBB9ECFDA01F" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">chrysopus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) apparently form a clade more closely related to the
<taxonomicName id="0D654CD8ECB772ACBCB0C9DDBB0CC36F" authorityName="True" authorityYear="1892" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="aquilus">
<emphasis id="609FC3219207F77A91046FF52C4BD764" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. aquilus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species group than to
<taxonomicName id="8292A72FC912189769AC6F727643941A" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1936" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Lophuromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brevicaudus">
<emphasis id="81326F0CF6851BABFB903A9C00495BEB" italics="true" pageNumber="1203">L. brevicaudus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and its allies (W.
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)
</paragraph>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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