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<mods:title>Order Rodentia - Family Muridae</mods:title>
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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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<mods:namePart>Don E. Wilson</mods:namePart>
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<emphasis box="[246,528,2200,2239]" italics="true" pageId="179" pageNumber="680">Otomys irroratus</emphasis>
(Brants, 1827)
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.
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TYPE LOCALITY:
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,
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,
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Town district, near Constantia (as fixed by A. Smith, 1834:149)
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.
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DISTRIBUTION: Mesic savannah and grasslands of southern Africa: S
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to C Transvaal,
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; disjunct populations in W
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and in E
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and contiguous
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SYNONYMS:
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Wroughton" authorityYear="1906" baseAuthorityName="Waterhouse" baseAuthorityYear="1839" box="[471,593,2451,2490]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="auratus">auratus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="F. Cuvier" authorityYear="1829" box="[618,782,2451,2490]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bisulcatus">bisulcatus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="G. Cuvier" authorityYear="1829" box="[803,938,2451,2490]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="capensis">capensis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1918" box="[958,1102,2451,2490]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="coenosus">coenosus</taxonomicName>
, cupreoides,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wroughton" authorityYear="1906" baseAuthorityName="A. A. Gould" baseAuthorityYear="1861" box="[1313,1441,2451,2490]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cupreus">cupreus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Roberts" authorityYear="1929" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1834" box="[1461,1626,2451,2490]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="natalensis">natalensis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Lichtenstein" baseAuthorityYear="1842" box="[1646,1772,2451,2490]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="obscura">obscura</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Roberts" authorityYear="1946" box="[371,528,2492,2530]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="orientalis">orientalis</taxonomicName>
, randensis,
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.
</emphasis>
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COMMENTS:
<bibRefCitation author="Bohmann, L., von" box="[476,753,2534,2573]" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" refId="ref35047" refString="Bohmann, L., von. 1952. Die afrikanische Nagergattung Otomys F. Cuvier. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 18: 1 - 80." year="1952">Bohmann (1952)</bibRefCitation>
established a broad, highly polymorphic definition of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="179" pageNumber="680">
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,
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then including among his 23 subspecies
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<emphasis box="[1235,1423,2576,2615]" italics="true" pageId="179" pageNumber="680">angoniensis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[1513,1656,2576,2615]" italics="true" pageId="179" pageNumber="680">maximus</emphasis>
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(see those accounts). Presumably excepting
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<emphasis box="[950,1137,2617,2656]" italics="true" pageId="179" pageNumber="680">angoniensis</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName authority=", Dieterlen (1968)" authorityName=", Dieterlen" authorityYear="1968" box="[1227,1670,2617,2656]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="maximus">
<emphasis box="[1227,1379,2617,2656]" italics="true" pageId="179" pageNumber="680">maximus,</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Dieterlen, F." box="[1393,1670,2617,2656]" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" refId="ref84197" refString="Dieterlen, F. 1968. Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Otomys (Otomyinae; Muridae; Rodentia). Beitrage zur Systematik, Okologie und Biologie zentralafrikanischer Formen. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 33: 321 - 352." year="1968">Dieterlen (1968)</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and
<bibRefCitation author="Petter, F." pageId="179" pageNumber="680" refId="ref284334" refString="Petter, F. 1982. Les parentes des Otomys du Mont Oku (Cameroun) et des autres formes rapportees a O. irroratus (Brants, 1827) (Rodentia, Muridae). Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 33: 215 - 222." year="1982">Petter (1982)</bibRefCitation>
further enlarged Bohmann's concept of
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Brants" baseAuthorityYear="1827" box="[1176,1318,2658,2698]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="irroratus">
<emphasis box="[1176,1318,2658,2698]" italics="true" pageId="179" pageNumber="680">irroratus</emphasis>
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to subsume the following forms here (and elsewhere) treated as separate species (see individual accounts):
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Bocage" authorityYear="1882" box="[370,525,2742,2782]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="anchietae">anchietae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas and Schwann" authorityYear="1905" box="[545,707,2742,2782]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="laminatus">laminatus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1902" box="[729,880,2742,2782]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="tropicalis">tropicalis</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
and
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Heuglin" authorityYear="1877" box="[977,1064,2742,2782]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="179" pageNumber="680" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="typus">typus</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
Although followed to a greater or lesser extent (e.g.,
<bibRefCitation author="Delany, M. J." box="[585,806,287,325]" pageId="180" pageNumber="681" refId="ref79476" refString="Delany, M. J. 1975. The rodents of Uganda. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 165 pp." year="1975">Delany, 1975</bibRefCitation>
; Kingdon, 1974), such an inclusive species construct is disputed by others who restrict
<taxonomicName box="[924,1247,329,368]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="180" pageNumber="681" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="irroratus" subSpecies="proper">
<emphasis box="[924,1247,329,368]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="681">O. irroratus proper</emphasis>
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to southern Africa (e.g.,
<bibRefCitation author="Meester, J. A. J. &amp; I. L. Rautenbach &amp; N. J. Dippenaar &amp; C. M. Baker" 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>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Misonne, X." box="[579,834,371,410]" pageId="180" pageNumber="681" 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>
). G-banded comparisons reveal a karyotype that is highly derived (
<bibRefCitation author="Robinson, T. J. &amp; F. F. B. Elder" box="[529,972,413,452]" pageId="180" pageNumber="681" refId="ref307992" refString="Robinson, T. J., and F. F. B. Elder. 1987. Extensive genome reorganization in the African rodent genus Otomys. Journal of Zoology, London, 211: 735 - 745." year="1987">Robinson and Elder, 1987</bibRefCitation>
). Cytogenetic variation extensive among South African population samples (
<bibRefCitation author="Contrafatto, G. &amp; J. A. Meester &amp; G. Bronner &amp; P. J. Taylor &amp; K. Willan" box="[878,1298,456,494]" pageId="180" pageNumber="681" refId="ref65385" refString="Contrafatto, G., J. A. Meester, G. Bronner, P. J. Taylor, and K. Willan. 1992 a. Genetic variation in the African rodent subfamily Otomyinae (Muridae). IV: Chromosome G-banding analysis of Otomys irroratus and O. angoniensis. Israel Journal of Zoology, 38: 277 - 291." year="1992">Contrafatto et al., 1992a</bibRefCitation>
). See Bronner et al. (1988, Mammalian Species, 308).
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