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<figureCitation id="0EA24FE63437FF86E49128AA729687C2" box="[1446,1503,1187,1233]" captionStart="Plate 33: Muridae" captionStartId="10.[88,118,3183,3204]" captionTargetBox="[11,2716,14,3649]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="23. Angolan Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys angolensis), 24. Ansorge’s Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys ansorgei), 25. Dark-colored Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys aquilus), 26. Short-tailed Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys brevicaudus), 27. Ethiopian Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys brunneus), 28. Mount Chercher Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys chercherensis), 29. Ethiopian Forest Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys chrysopus), 30. Gray Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys cinereus), 31. Mount Oku Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys dieterleni), 32. Dudu’s Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys duduz), 33. Mount Lefo Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys eisentraut), 34. Buff-spotted Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys flavopunctatus), 35. Hutterer’s Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys huttereri), 36. Kilonzo’s Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys kilonzo), 37. Albertine Rift Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys laticeps), 38. Buff-bellied Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys luteogaster), 39. Machangu’s Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys machangui), 40. Makundi’s Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys makundii), 41. Margaret's Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys margarettae), 42. Western Rift Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys medicaudatus), 43. Black-clawed Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys melanonyx), 44. North Western Rift Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys menageshae), 45. Naked-tailed Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys nudicaudus), 46. Sheko Forest Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys pseudosikapusi), 47. Rahm’s Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys rahmi), 48. Congolese Brush-furred (Rat Lophuromysrita), 49. Mount Cameroon Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys rosevear), 50. Sabuni’s Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys sabunii), 51. Western Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys stkapusi), 52. Simien Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys simensis), 53. Rwenzori Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys stanleyi), 54. Verhagen’s Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys verhageni), 55. Woosnam' ’ s Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys woosnami), 56. Zena Brush-furred Rat (Lophuromys zena), 57. Rudd’s Bristle-furred Rat (Uranomys ruddi)" figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6887324" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6887324/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">57.</figureCitation>
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<vernacularName id="189A234D3437FF86E4D828AA70BF87C2" ID-CoL="7DNRL" authorityName="Dollman" authorityYear="1909" box="[1519,2038,1187,1233]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uranomys" kingdom="Animalia" language="eng" order="Rodentia" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ruddi">Rudd’s Bristle-furred Rat</vernacularName>
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E49228EA72B887EB" bold="true" box="[1445,1521,1251,1272]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">French:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName id="189A234D3437FF86E4CD28EA71F087EB" ID-CoL="7DNRL" authorityName="Dollman" authorityYear="1909" box="[1530,1721,1251,1272]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uranomys" kingdom="Animalia" language="fra" order="Rodentia" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ruddi">Uranomys de Rudd</vernacularName>
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/
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E7F928EA706187EB" bold="true" box="[1742,1832,1251,1272]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">German:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName id="189A234D3437FF86E61828EA7F1E87EB" ID-CoL="7DNRL" authorityName="Dollman" authorityYear="1909" box="[1839,2135,1251,1272]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uranomys" kingdom="Animalia" language="deu" order="Rodentia" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ruddi">Weibauch-Birstenhaarmaus</vernacularName>
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/
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E95A28EA7F8187EB" bold="true" box="[2157,2248,1251,1272]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Spanish:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName id="189A234D3437FF86E9E528EA7D4187EB" ID-CoL="7DNRL" authorityName="Dollman" authorityYear="1909" box="[2258,2568,1251,1272]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uranomys" kingdom="Animalia" language="esp" order="Rodentia" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ruddi">Rata de pelaje erizado de Rudd</vernacularName>
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E493290371D2860C" bold="true" box="[1444,1691,1290,1311]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Other common names:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName id="189A234D3437FF86E7922903707C860C" ID-CoL="7DNRL" authorityName="Dollman" authorityYear="1909" box="[1701,1845,1290,1311]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uranomys" kingdom="Animalia" language="eng" order="Rodentia" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ruddi">Rudd's Mouse</vernacularName>
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,
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<vernacularName id="189A234D3437FF86E67729037F38860C" ID-CoL="7DNRL" authorityName="Dollman" authorityYear="1909" box="[1856,2161,1290,1311]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uranomys" kingdom="Animalia" language="eng" order="Rodentia" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ruddi">White-bellied Brush-furred Rat</vernacularName>
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E93F295F7FEA867C" bold="true" box="[2056,2211,1366,1391]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Taxonomy.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03437FF86E986295F7D1B867C" ID-CoL="7DNRL" authority="Dollman, 1909" authorityName="Dollman" authorityYear="1909" box="[2225,2642,1366,1391]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uranomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ruddi">Uranomys ruddi Dollman, 1909</taxonomicName>
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,
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<materialsCitation id="26F1593E3437FF86E93E29737D7B86AD" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="3864424676" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">“Kirui, [Mt] Elgon, British East Africa [= Kenya]. Altitude 6000 feet [= 1820 m].”</materialsCitation>
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Despite some chromosomal variability,
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is still considered monotypic, and only one widespread species is recognized. Initially considered as a Murinae, U. rudd: was then placed with
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close to
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. Morphological variability of
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has resulted in as many as seven species being named, but they have been synonymized with
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. Monotypic.
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E4942B27711A8454" bold="true" box="[1443,1619,1838,1863]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Distribution.</emphasis>
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Disjunct in W, C & E Africa, from
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E to SW Ethiopia and S to extreme E Zimbabwe and C Mozambique.
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E4942B7D71D78485" bold="true" box="[1443,1694,1908,1942]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Descriptive notes.</emphasis>
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Head—body 95-119 mm, tail 60-73 mm, ear 10-15 mm, hindfoot 16-19 mm; weight 26-43 g. Rudd’s Bristle-furred Rat has a shorttail (¢.60% of head— body length), pure white belly, and dorsum with short and stiff hairs of variable color (gray to yellow-brown). It has short limbs and three pectoral plus three inguinal pairs of mammae. Skin is thin and fragile, and tail is easily broken. Skull is similar to that of species of
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by having elongated palatine bone covering pterygoid fossae. Lateral view of skull is much higher than those of
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, which is flatter and upper incisors are proodont. Molars are very similar to
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03437FF86E6ED248E7F708BBA" box="[2010,2105,2183,2217]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Acomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Acomys</taxonomicName>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83437FF86E49624A67F008A7D" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" type="biology_ecology">
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<paragraph id="962653633437FF86E49624A67F008A7D" blockId="17.[1438,2648,1789,3122]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E49624A671598BC2" bold="true" box="[1441,1552,2223,2257]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Habitat.</emphasis>
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Grasslands with few trees and moist soils (even semi-swampy and along riverbanks), cultivated and fallow fields, and oil palm plantations. Rudd’s Bristle-furred Rats were caught in grassland savanna and fallow and cultivated fields in Ivory Coast, close to a river in West Guinea, in farmland and grassy swamp in Nigeria, and near dense stands of Pennisetum grass in Sierra Leone.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83437FF86E496257D7EE58AAE" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" type="food_feeding">
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<paragraph id="962653633437FF86E496257D7EE58AAE" blockId="17.[1438,2648,1789,3122]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E496257D71E38A85" bold="true" box="[1441,1706,2420,2454]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Food and Feeding.</emphasis>
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Rudd’s Bristle-furred Rat is considered primarily insectivorous. It eats insects (
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03437FF86E76625A971F58AAE" box="[1617,1724,2464,2493]" class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Diptera</taxonomicName>
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larvae and young) and tubercles (cassava and bulbs).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83437FF86E49625CA7ECE8920" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" type="breeding">
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<paragraph id="962653633437FF86E49625CA7ECE8920" blockId="17.[1438,2648,1789,3122]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E49625CA716E8AF6" bold="true" box="[1441,1575,2499,2533]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Breeding.</emphasis>
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Female Rudd's Bristle-furred Rats can have 2-6 embryos (average 3-2). Pregnancy occurs throughout the year, except in early dry season in Ivory Coast, and there is a peak during late wet season. Females mature when they weigh 22 g.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83437FF86E4A926307D4B8948" box="[1438,2562,2617,2651]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" type="activity">
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<paragraph id="962653633437FF86E4A926307D4B8948" blockId="17.[1438,2648,1789,3122]" box="[1438,2562,2617,2651]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E4A9263071C38948" bold="true" box="[1438,1674,2617,2651]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Activity patterns.</emphasis>
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Rudd’s Bristle-furred Ratis primarily nocturnal and terrestrial.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83437FF86E497266971E2887E" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" type="biology_ecology">
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<paragraph id="962653633437FF86E497266971E2887E" blockId="17.[1438,2648,1789,3122]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E49726697F258991" bold="true" box="[1440,2156,2656,2690]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Movements, Home range and Social organization.</emphasis>
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Patterns of abundance of Rudd’s Bristle-furred Rats in Lamto savanna, Ivory Coast, suggested that they live in colonies, but nothing specific is known about social organization or home range size. Burrows have a single spherical gallery (10-15 cm in diameter) situated 12-15 cm underground, a deeper oblique gallery 30-40 cm underground, and 1-2 galleries connecting to the soil surface, one closed by a mound of soil and the other closed when an individual is inside.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83437FF86E497277D7E4F88AF" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" type="conservation">
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<paragraph id="962653633437FF86E497277D7E4F88AF" blockId="17.[1438,2648,1789,3122]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E497277D704D8885" bold="true" box="[1440,1796,2932,2966]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Status and Conservation.</emphasis>
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Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Rudd’s Bristle-furred Rats is wide spread and can be locally abundant.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83437FF86E49727C571898F21" pageId="17" pageNumber="614" type="bibRefCitation_list">
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<paragraph id="962653633437FF86E49727C571898F21" blockId="17.[1438,2648,1789,3122]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713437FF86E49727C5717088F6" bold="true" box="[1440,1593,3020,3045]" pageId="17" pageNumber="614">Bibliography.</emphasis>
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Bellier (1968), Denys & Michaux (1992), Denys, Lalis et al. (2009), Gautun (1975), Granjon & Duplantier (2009), Grubb et al. (1998), Monadjem et al. (2015), Hanney (1965), Happold (1974, 2013m, 2013n), Musser & Carleton (2005).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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