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<emphasis id="63D262189BC60069E17B3509E6BE18D8" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys</emphasis>
Milne-Edwards 1877
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<emphasis id="8E2C6C1AC5BCCB68217809F4E926C97F" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys</emphasis>
Milne-Edwards 1877
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,
<bibCitation id="98C72570C69561FA0751C2B7A33650F6" author="Milne-Edwards" journal="Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 6" pageNumber="1354" pagination="10" title="Malacomys" volume="12" year="1877">Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 6, 12: 10</bibCitation>
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.
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<emphasis id="36A3343CCF3AE73CC6A2B2F56C7C9D96" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1354">Type Species:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="DF9C6E7D8650FFCDED701E2FA8105E96" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys longipes</emphasis>
Milne-Edwards 1877
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<emphasis id="F3C21291ADD1F47903CF68CD91C211CB" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1354">Species and subspecies:</emphasis>
3 species:
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Species
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<emphasis id="8F33E8DB3B53C88560334F74B0A9367D" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys cansdalei</emphasis>
Ansell 1958
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Species
<taxonomicName id="EE2D528F4BAADD9D0F7D572FFE5F77BF" authority="Rochebrune 1885" authorityName="Rochebrune" authorityYear="1885" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Malacomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1354" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="edwardsi">
<emphasis id="C0F07CAEEB14ABE02F72460C87B01DA7" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys edwardsi</emphasis>
Rochebrune 1885
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Species
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<emphasis id="00F45D0DD748A0372A3950B300570BD0" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys longipes</emphasis>
Milne-Edwards 1877
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<emphasis id="32F56E9739A94F6F2F5A137FD03E1927" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1354">Discussion:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="63C23CD50D8CEB0695AFB7FD395CB83E" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys</emphasis>
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Division. Study of dental features led
<bibRefCitation id="2B8DC99ABB7E3FA286F2909BF28FDD96" author="Misonne, X." refId="ref243286" refString="Misonne, X. 1969. African and Indo-Australian Muridae: Evolutionary trends. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Serie IN- 8, Sciences Zoologiques, 172: 1 - 219." year="1969">Misonne (1969:106)</bibRefCitation>
to write that &quot;
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<emphasis id="053CAB9DBF1A5AE25CE94F24E8A9BB27" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys</emphasis>
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stands apart from all the other African genera by its unusual dental characters. This is an advanced genus which cannot be clearly related to any other one.&quot;
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<emphasis id="B126190F308E5D710BE75B6202ACC7A7" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys</emphasis>
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was included in allozymic analyses, which were inconclusive as to detecting its closest relative (
<bibRefCitation id="65B250D1F948D8A51CA4EA357F96C566" author="Bonhomme, F. &amp; D. Iskandar &amp; L. Thaler &amp; F. Petter" refId="ref35745" refString="Bonhomme, F., D. Iskandar, L. Thaler, and F. Petter. 1985. Electromorphs and phylogeney in muroid rodents. Pp. 671 - 683, in Evolutionary relationships among rodents, a multidisciplinary analysis (W. P. Luckett and J. - L. Hartenberger, eds.). Plenum Press, New York, 721 pp." year="1985">Bonhomme et al., 1985</bibRefCitation>
). DNA/DNA hybridization experiments (Chevret, 1994) clustered
<taxonomicName id="8D7DBF7F70578FF22FDC27D0528ED2E4" authorityName="Milne-Edwards" authorityYear="1877" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Malacomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longipes">
<emphasis id="6B251A5080D459EFEB0E1B10EF5C39A8" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys longipes</emphasis>
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as one branch of a trifurcation with the second leading to a &quot;
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<emphasis id="36534CA11486D974594B5BB214834FBF" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Praomys</emphasis>
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group&quot; (
<emphasis id="800040F1CDABA38F07D59D0CF30B26E2" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">
<taxonomicName id="F65C855F7E7E69AC9CCF38A3D4F24844" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Praomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Praomys</taxonomicName>
+
<taxonomicName id="B37F396DD0A7788CB3900AAC763C1272" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Myomys</taxonomicName>
+
<taxonomicName id="A04EF84C813420085B6622C1767FB89B" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mastomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Mastomys</taxonomicName>
+
<taxonomicName id="AE026B442D26807B5DAF234097D0A72C" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1926" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Hylomyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Hylomyscus</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
) and the third to a &quot;
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<emphasis id="3384AAEFC91BDBAE1045D66887A44DF6" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Mus</emphasis>
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group&quot; (
<taxonomicName id="FD824195D5CC01BE6EB271C91F315C70" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1881" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0C99AED8AE85A7A0019901D8A7C782FD" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Mus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, including subgenera
<taxonomicName id="C7753FD6B997750087B1B587B83DC996" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1911" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Pyromys">
<emphasis id="1E2FA4529A24F495252C8085725ECCFA" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Pyromys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="7A6EB0BDE61A12C485A97067FC76DC4A" authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1876" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Nannomys">
<emphasis id="ABA9481FA9976564A8BD0250D18AAEF8" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Nannomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="B555340AF56F7D05BFD21BF2448EE748" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Coelomys">
<emphasis id="62FA21703F68520D0F13DA4E794FA1B7" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Coelomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). External, cranial, and dental traits suggest
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<emphasis id="BE10D31A233E05B744D590ECC52A5AEF" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys</emphasis>
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is phylogenetically allied with
<taxonomicName id="8CC8D513D3074226BF4C122309E6FF0E" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Praomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="D27A2C0DBEC41590FB9C13C354C9AA2E" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Praomys</emphasis>
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, particularly through what appears to be the morphologically annectant
<taxonomicName id="96B4877FB06AB5A0208EF36C7FD85986" authorityName="Hatt" authorityYear="1934" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Praomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lukolelae">
<emphasis id="1E510DBAD9B6C06979621A694E74DCBD" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">P. lukolelae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="F1AEAA4E61B3C3E7DED036C5BBDEAB1B" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">P. verschureni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(our study of specimens; see account of
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<emphasis id="EC522FF0FCB2F99D03098EAF8C65ABEC" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">P. lukolelae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). This view is countered by the cladistic analyses of morphological traits in species of
<taxonomicName id="9412657CB86A6F8D198072F30DB6A058" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Praomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A740B16F5F3E5B7B67FB6BF1660A2976" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Praomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="BAA71296641DE8AE3E05ACA3C43106F9" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1926" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Hylomyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0A62FFFCA1DEC4497650A6E3948C0000" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Hylomyscus</emphasis>
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,
<taxonomicName id="4EF8D747519F75A1E694DF19BB98125F" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mastomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="FE9034F01B48DE3B248A6F361489DCBF" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Mastomys</emphasis>
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, and
<taxonomicName id="1D41DF339CA609BCCE8D0DAF6E9EF69A" authorityName="Shortridge" authorityYear="1942" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Myomyscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2480DDB1973F36BE68E21DB7EE8ACE0D" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Myomyscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(reported as
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<emphasis id="F97D17341C465C1059F38913D44C9726" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Myomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) where
<taxonomicName id="8ECF7B0378685F32507BAD833301F3E9" authorityName="Milne-Edwards" authorityYear="1877" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Malacomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="5AE969B3D47E3E4DAE52CEE338C2A2A9" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys</emphasis>
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was used as an outgroup and was consistently excluded from a monophyletic &quot;
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<emphasis id="A9F1E094185ACAEE5F95A192E993C084" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Praomys</emphasis>
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group&quot; (
<bibRefCitation id="8680C4B765D46A4AA580ED8245719D1D" author="Lecompte, E. &amp; L. Granjon &amp; C. Denys" refId="ref208545" refString="Lecompte, E., L. Granjon, and C. Denys. 2002 a. The phylogeny of the Praomys complex (Rodentia: Muridae) and its phylogeographic implications. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 40: 8 - 25." year="2002">
Lecompte et al., 2002
<emphasis id="E8E8AD9D0C0FDEFC9166F2DC871C152C" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">a</emphasis>
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), and &quot;was always very distant from the ‘
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<emphasis id="0C38A1E6BACD396C81AA41F7162AC125" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Praomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group’, even when not designed as outgroup in parsimony or any other type of analyses&quot; (L. Granjon, in litt., 2002).
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<emphasis id="60E8EA2B1D430C5232E2EBB54CFDD14B" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys</emphasis>
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is also distant to monophyletic
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<emphasis id="5B11C77802F02900B6359A1A2B4CF96A" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Praomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group in preliminary results from phylogenetic analyses of nuclear
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gene sequences (E. Lecompte, in litt., 2002). Analyses of a broader range of genes along with denser taxon sampling that includes
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<emphasis id="56D27046683A883076E0583EE3547400" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys</emphasis>
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would be welcome and may provide a sharper picture of its phyletic affinity within a reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships among African murines.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D690E1815D621CC3ACF5DE81182A2342" pageNumber="1354">
Two revisions (
<bibRefCitation id="016435BCFBA1A9620D51FDDDD18324C0" author="Rautenbach, I. L. &amp; D. A. Schlitter" refId="ref298685" refString="Rautenbach, I. L., and D. A. Schlitter. 1978. Revision of genus Malacomys of Africa (Mammalia: Muridae). Annals of Carnegie Museum, 47: 385 - 422." year="1978">Rautenbach and Schlitter, 1978</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="CD1A7738930B67D65BE8E83DD9832E48" author="Van der Straeten, E. &amp; W. N. Verheyen" refId="ref365044" refString="Van der Straeten, E., and W. N. Verheyen. 1979 b. Notes taxonomiques sur les Malacomys de l'Ouest africain avec redescription du patron chromosomique de Malacomys edwardsi (Mammalia, Muridae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 93: 10 - 35." year="1979">
Van der Straeten and Verheyen, 1979
<emphasis id="91A42A1744BA74C8299E6252FBD9B8C7" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">b</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
) provided somewhat different evaluations of morphological variation and its interpretation in context of species-diversity. The morphological distinctions between
<taxonomicName id="5FA364ED816EA4B9BAFC6C3F703613B3" authorityName="Rochebrune" authorityYear="1885" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Malacomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="edwardsi">
<emphasis id="36B4A704D8BCA9CC035A9426E6123A6A" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">M. edwardsi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="922088D5EF46B1C3A7CF071B2CD25BA9" authorityName="Milne-Edwards" authorityYear="1877" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Malacomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longipes">
<emphasis id="1D57B8FD1CEA86A044DB7D549262B437" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">M. longipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were documented more than six decades ago by
<bibRefCitation id="572779C1E56C662263A3FE0CC9AE5AD5" author="Hayman, R. W." refId="ref143425" refString="Hayman, R. W. 1935. On a collection of mammals from the Gold Coast. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1935: 915 - 937." year="1935">Hayman (1935)</bibRefCitation>
. Geographic distributions outlined below come mostly from the two revisions.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="42D1B82516979620A5869EF253414894" pageNumber="1354">
Species of
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<emphasis id="D5FD4D7FECF203AA7EB609ED2D6A18E2" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are referred to as African swamp rats (
<bibRefCitation id="BDB5E3138B46D60413145E6B936E438A" author="Wilson, D. E. &amp; F. R. Cole" refId="ref390832" refString="Wilson, D. E., and F. R. Cole. 2000. Common names of mammals of the world. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London, xiv + 204 pp." year="2000">Wilson and Cole, 2000</bibRefCitation>
), but they do not inhabit swamps. Their range of habitats is exemplified by the sympatric range of
<taxonomicName id="8F597DB53377E65E603EBF14ED2C1617" authorityName="Rochebrune" authorityYear="1885" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Malacomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="edwardsi">
<emphasis id="46B1E4F6DA04D33AA54827F2FD52B24E" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">M. edwardsi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="449428758B285EE19171338D7A5431D7" authorityName="Ansell" authorityYear="1958" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Malacomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cansdalei">
<emphasis id="45309E36287BFC788B0C93F07EAEC393" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">M. cansdalei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<collectingCountry id="A75004762D30565EF4CFD623B9E0C459" name="Ghana">Ghana</collectingCountry>
. Both eat slugs, earthworms, and plant parts, and require primary tropical evergreen rainforest, but
<taxonomicName id="FFCEC5B26E215AA2E5BF3C00632A3B36" authorityName="Rochebrune" authorityYear="1885" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Malacomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="edwardsi">
<emphasis id="5E83FDB6545F611C1022B0354C56E1D1" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">M. edwardsi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is found in higher, well drained ground, and
<taxonomicName id="5BC822ADC36F95D62CCDCE1A6C16AFC3" authorityName="Ansell" authorityYear="1958" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Malacomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cansdalei">
<emphasis id="EABBA2A2471C6C76B8629F7CB4FD0BDC" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">M. cansdalei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
prefers damper places
<emphasis id="D2867187918467008D51E56A8F8D6C8F" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">–</emphasis>
valley bottoms, moist lower slopes, stream banks, and wet mud (
<bibRefCitation id="5BFCF0B44C6A16377AD8D30E6D3E4797" author="Grubb, P. &amp; T. S. Jones &amp; A. G. Davies &amp; E. Edberg &amp; E. D. Starin &amp; J. E. Hill" refId="ref134571" refString="Grubb, P., T. S. Jones, A. G. Davies, E. Edberg, E. D. Starin, and J. E. Hill. 1998. Mammals of Ghana, Sierra Leone and The Gambia. The Trendrine Press, Cornwall, 265 pp." year="1998">Grubb et al., 1998</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="6AE4145437A5BB10DC09A36FF5546B33" author="Happold, D. C. D. &amp; M. Happold &amp; J. E. Hill" refId="ref140352" refString="Happold, D. C. D., M. Happold, and J. E. Hill. 1987. The bats of Malawi. Mammalia, 51: 337 - 414." year="1987">Happold, 1987</bibRefCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="498BF6F9789E2E47D14A3A4D101C95FD" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys edwardsi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been caught on moist soil near a river in SW
<collectingCountry id="1A0476C75DC682BC68A91C1911A15939" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="8FCC43F7457EF8EEB23FE21D43C2AE50" author="Barnett, A. A. &amp; M. Prangley &amp; P. V. Hayman &amp; D. Diawara &amp; J. Koman" refId="ref20878" refString="Barnett, A. A., M. Prangley, P. V. Hayman, D. Diawara, and J. Koman. 1996. A survey of the mammals of the Kounounkan Massif, south-western Guinea, West Africa. Journal of African Zoology, 110: 235 - 240." year="1996">Barnett et al., 1996</bibRefCitation>
). In the Kalinzu Forest of SW
<collectingCountry id="1D1F792805FB3DE34A61A430DBC42F8C" name="Uganda">Uganda</collectingCountry>
,
<taxonomicName id="70E251043BEE5F3930192437EFB496C0" authorityName="Milne-Edwards" authorityYear="1877" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Malacomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longipes">
<emphasis id="FB7E408FA4730E97CCD40D27FCC410A9" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">M. longipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was collected on dry ground around stumps in logged forest (
<bibRefCitation id="01550CC34B7025DACDE74D93933BED71" author="Lunde, D. P. &amp; E. E. Sarmiento" refId="ref217575" refString="Lunde, D. P., and E. E. Sarmiento. 2002. Rodents collected from Kalinzu Forest, Uganda. Mammalian Biology, 67: 250 - 255." year="2002">Lunde and Sarmiento, 2002</bibRefCitation>
), and
<bibRefCitation id="B0F2A80BBADB6A36797056C3A3BAED1B" author="Granjon, L." refId="ref126777" refString="Granjon, L. 1991. Les rongeurs myomorphes du bassin du Kouilou (Congo). Pp. 265 - 278, in Flore et faune du Bassin du Kouilou (Congo) et leur exploitation (R. J. Dowsett and F. Dowsett-Lemaire, eds.). Tauraco Research Report 4, 340 pp." year="1991">Granjon (1991)</bibRefCitation>
trapped it in a variety of habitats in
<collectingCountry id="B90482100036BD6023A7896E87E0A402" name="Republic of the Congo">Republic of Congo</collectingCountry>
, from degraded primary forest to swamp forest. In their experience,
<bibRefCitation id="C449CDA2D22204B78C01EEA8439E7054" author="Kerbis Peterhans, J. C. &amp; B. D. Patterson" refId="ref182960" refString="Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., and B. D. Patterson. 1995. The Ethiopian water mouse Nilopegamys Osgood, with comments on semi-aquatic adaptations in African Muridae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 113: 329 - 349." year="1995">Kerbis Peterhans and Patterson (1995)</bibRefCitation>
noted that
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<emphasis id="51E40DE74231F12B6B53C64287DCA311" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">M. longipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was usually captured in shallow forest streams or along their margins (also indicated by
<bibRefCitation id="E0FB609E540F7477774AA26C49A53908" author="Hoffmann, A." refId="ref154702" refString="Hoffmann, A. 1997. Small mammals in the Kibale Forest, Uganda. Pp. 241 - 244, in Tropical biodiversity and systematics. (H. Ulrich, ed.). Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, 357 pp." year="1997">Hoffmann, 1997</bibRefCitation>
). They included species of
<taxonomicName id="E82D30B11254F05414AF49270ED2E38D" authorityName="Milne-Edwards" authorityYear="1877" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Malacomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="68E9069A754CEEDA10821BEE8358272A" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Malacomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="906B1F7E36EFB4FC350B762AD54E50E9" authorityName="Thomas and Wroughton" authorityYear="1907" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Colomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="goslingi">
<emphasis id="01D89547057B9C7A0C7AB219974C1CA5" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Colomys goslingi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="E64701F4810C0931C5DC2000BF06AC9A" authorityName=", Thomas" authorityYear="1888" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Deomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ferrugineus">
<emphasis id="41FC232551B51374581ACCE0A3DB681F" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Deomys ferrugineus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in an African guild of waders (see account of
<taxonomicName id="171A639CA099729ACFEE600E71EAB87D" baseAuthorityName="Hayman" baseAuthorityYear="1966" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Colomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="5509B2C6B290CE3ED02115597D0FD88C" italics="true" pageNumber="1354">Colomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
)
</paragraph>
.
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