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<mods:namePart>Guy G. Musser</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Michael D. Carleton</mods:namePart>
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<emphasis box="[244,532,2341,2380]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="681">Otomys tropicalis</emphasis>
Thomas, 1902
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TYPE LOCALITY:
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, west slope of Mt.
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DISTRIBUTION: Irregular highland distribution in W
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,
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, and bordering
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; outlying populations on Mount
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SYNONYMS:
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,
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, elgonis, faradjius, ghigii, nubilus, ruberculus,
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, vulcanicus.
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COMMENTS: Regarded as conspecific with
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<emphasis box="[990,1184,2548,2587]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="681">O. irroratus</emphasis>
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by
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and accordingly recognized in regional treatments (
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; Kingdon, 1974); however, others have maintained the southern African form
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<emphasis box="[1133,1276,2631,2671]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="681">irroratus</emphasis>
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as specifically distinct from eastern African
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<emphasis box="[648,797,2674,2714]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="681">tropicalis</emphasis>
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(
<bibRefCitation author="de Graaff, G." box="[826,1098,2674,2714]" pageId="180" pageNumber="681" refId="ref77573" refString="de Graaff, G. 1981. The rodents of Southern Africa. Butterworths, Durban, 267 pp." year="1981">De Graaff, 1981</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Meester, J. A. J. &amp; I. L. Rautenbach &amp; N. J. Dippenaar &amp; C. M. Baker" box="[1118,1457,2674,2714]" pageId="180" pageNumber="681" 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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). Even so, the taxa herein assembled under
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<emphasis box="[1004,1153,2718,2756]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="681">tropicalis</emphasis>
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(after
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) remain a composite of two or more species, whose definition and range will require careful revisionary work, involving simultaneous attention to possible relationships with species-group taxa now lumped under O.
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<emphasis box="[1105,1192,323,362]" italics="true" pageId="181" pageNumber="682">typus</emphasis>
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(see next account).
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