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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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<mods:title>Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)</mods:title>
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<treatmentCitation author="Thomas" authority="Thomas, 1916" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1916" box="[266,1410,1410,1448]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Dendromus" journal="Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="242" pageId="41" pageNumber="542" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kivu" title="Dendromus kivu" volume="18" year="1916">
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<emphasis box="[266,530,1410,1448]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="542">Dendromus kivu</emphasis>
Thomas, 1916
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.
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TYPE LOCALITY:
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, near Lake
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Kivu, Buhamba,
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m
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.
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DISTRIBUTION: A possible montane Western Rift endemic; recorded from the west and east slopes of the Ruwenzoris in E
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and W
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(
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, and specimens in the Field Museum of Natural History) and the
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in E
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(samples in the American Museum of Natural History and the British Museum of Natural History).
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SYNONYMS:
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.
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COMMENTS:
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discussed two series of
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collected at the same time and place on the western slope of Mt. Ruwenzori. He described one as
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<taxonomicName class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="41" pageNumber="542" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lunaris">D. lunaris</taxonomicName>
,
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based on two examples, and identified the other as
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1903" box="[1422,1602,1787,1826]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="41" pageNumber="542" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="insignis">D. insignis</taxonomicName>
,
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a conclustion we verified from study of his specimens. The two species are also sympatric in the
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(series in American Museum of Natural History). Thomas originally described
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<emphasis box="[570,638,1913,1953]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="542">kivu</emphasis>
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as a subspecies of
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1903" box="[972,1152,1913,1953]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Dendromus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="41" pageNumber="542" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="insignis">D. insignis</taxonomicName>
,
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but our study of the
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reveals it to be the same as Osgood's
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,
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which it predates. Both
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<emphasis box="[1420,1487,1956,1995]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="542">kivu</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[1578,1704,1956,1995]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="542">insignis</emphasis>
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have been included in
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<emphasis box="[692,907,1998,2036]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="542">D. mesomelas</emphasis>
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(
<bibRefCitation author="Bohmann, L., von" box="[936,1201,1998,2036]" pageId="41" pageNumber="542" refId="ref35008" refString="Bohmann, L., von. 1942. Die Gattung Dendromus A. Smith. Versuch einer naturlichen Gruppierung (Ergebnisse der Ostafrika-Reise 1937 Uthmoller-Bohmann. VIII). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 139: 33 - 53." year="1942">Bohmann, 1942</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Misonne, X." box="[1221,1473,1998,2036]" pageId="41" pageNumber="542" 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>
). It is the smallerbodied
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<emphasis box="[521,588,2040,2079]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="542">kivu</emphasis>
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that is morphologically similar to
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<emphasis box="[1192,1408,2040,2079]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="542">D. mesomelas</emphasis>
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and the nature of the relationship between the two will have to be revealed by systematic revision of the
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<emphasis box="[391,558,2124,2162]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="542">mesomelas</emphasis>
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group.
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