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<emphasis id="86ACD47A6DA3656590590DE846D97F8F" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">Arvicanthis abyssinicus</emphasis>
Rüppell 1842
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<emphasis id="F685A8910738D3A489C56182C69F14C0" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">Arvicanthis abyssinicus</emphasis>
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. Senckenberg., 3: 104
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.
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<emphasis id="A28E3E11E2ECEBCF28F67B828F8CDF45" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1286">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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<collectingCountry id="58809F774A26402539ED57C3EB843C0C" name="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</collectingCountry>
, Simien Province, Simien Mtns, Entschetqab (see
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).
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.
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<emphasis id="D8531979D3D1DF71F067A1739B64FB65" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1286">Synonyms:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="FCFC59462EB2F1F042B2576A7FB39E20" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">Arvicanthis fluvicinctus</emphasis>
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;
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<emphasis id="EA5FC66A4EE0F875DB2A3BD88412CEB4" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">Arvicanthis rufodorsalis</emphasis>
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;
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<emphasis id="D7C1B8618F9422DD5CAC550551AE55FD" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">Arvicanthis saturatus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="CCC7E18E6638221C010BD87C0314195A" author="Dollman, G." refId="ref87523" refString="Dollman, G. 1911. On Arvicanthis abyssinicus and allied East-African species, with descriptions of four new forms. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 8: 334 - 353." year="1911">Dollman 1911</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<emphasis id="EFD34E318BA7D8483FB2C074DEA830EC" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1286">Distribution:</emphasis>
Ethiopian
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between
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(
<bibRefCitation id="A8477FDBD8A9BD234537431D05243C26" author="Yalden, D. W. &amp; M. J. Largen &amp; D. Kock" refId="ref397218" refString="Yalden, D. W., M. J. Largen, and D. Kock. 1976. Catalogue of the mammals of Ethiopia. 2. Insectivora and Rodentia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 8 (1): 1 - 118." year="1976">Yalden et al., 1976</bibRefCitation>
).
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<paragraph id="57F8D7329B0686E688B935B3D863A123" pageNumber="1286">
<emphasis id="0258586328198BB0F22506A27DAE4BCA" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1286">Conservation:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="A0AEA38FA87E44430339B37B195D9BD3">IUCN</collectionCode>
Lower Risk (lc).
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<subSubSection id="B73AD8543461E1EEF0C8F5C408D7FD7C" pageNumber="1286" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="AB69882B5A9B4383AC40237EEDF0D937" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1286">Discussion:</emphasis>
<paragraph id="B223B7853C59B74BF63AAE57613C8E92" pageNumber="1286">
An Ethiopian endemic with 2n = 62, FN = 68 (Corti et al., 1996;
<bibRefCitation id="41397213E789207648F42133AF5D6644" author="Bulatova, N. S. &amp; V. N. Orlov" refId="ref46245" refString="Bulatova, N. S., and V. N. Orlov. 1997. Biological versus chromosomal diversity in Ethiopian mammals: A preliminary outlook. Pp. 68 - 85, in Ecological and faunistic studies in Ethiopia, part 1 (Joint Ethio-Russian Biological Expedition, ed.). Addis Ababa, 106 pp." year="1997">Orlov and Bulatova, 1997</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="129A3D7E50F5F4E0FCE1B8396BD9EE80" author="Orlov, V. N. &amp; M. I. Baskevich &amp; N. Sh. Bulatova" refId="ref267548" refString="Orlov, V. N., M. I. Baskevich, and N. Sh. Bulatova. 1992 a. [Chromosomal sets of rats of the genus Arvicanthis (Rodentia, Muridae) from Ethiopia.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 71 (2): 103 - 112 (in Russian with English summary)." year="1992">
Orlov et al., 1992
<emphasis id="015B9943A7E4BAE6BB938A70C320F635" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">a</emphasis>
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). Historically the species was perceived to embrace forms occurring from
<collectingCountry id="03EA9AD0CF2F464E410F3730CDC3DFE9" name="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</collectingCountry>
south to
<collectingCountry id="45AB20BC455026772F9869CF42D57A34" name="Zambia">Zambia</collectingCountry>
(G. M.
<bibRefCitation id="82546269448DB2607F2A6D432A40BB3C" author="Allen, G. M." refId="ref4894" refString="Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763." year="1939">Allen, 1939</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="53574FCCA58F44F7DC04DD681C504EAD" author="Dollman, G." refId="ref87523" refString="Dollman, G. 1911. On Arvicanthis abyssinicus and allied East-African species, with descriptions of four new forms. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 8: 334 - 353." year="1911">Dollman, 1911</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="E3373363BD75F256C9A15D4B5F333F55" author="Ellerman, J. R." refId="ref92857" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp." year="1941">Ellerman, 1941</bibRefCitation>
), but
<bibRefCitation id="CAFF6DF96D96958EEF5C98FCA7E80D72" author="Osgood, W. H." refId="ref269005" refString="Osgood, W. H. 1936. New and imperfectly known small mammals from Africa. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 20: 217 - 256." year="1936">Osgood (1936:252)</bibRefCitation>
discussed several of
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<emphasis id="822743956D56B010E0434793176AEB58" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">A. abyssinicus</emphasis>
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's diagnostic features, noting that it &quot;is not unlikely that it is confined to
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and at least some of the forms of
<collectingCountry id="A80D67D1AA3377699BB2A9C0A830F8CE" name="Kenya">Kenya</collectingCountry>
and
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which have been associated with it will need other allocation.&quot; This view has been reinforced by analyses of morphometric (
<bibRefCitation id="89EB98331A529C115E1D53D244E541F7" author="Bekele, A. &amp; E. Capanna &amp; M. Corti &amp; L. F. Marcus &amp; D. A. Schlitter" refId="ref26335" refString="Bekele, A., E. Capanna, M. Corti, L. F. Marcus, and D. A. Schlitter. 1993. Systematics and geographic variation of Ethiopian Arvicanthis (Rodentia, Muridae). Journal of Zoology, London, 230: 117 - 134." year="1993">Bekele et al., 1993</bibRefCitation>
; Corti and Fadda, 1996; Fadda and Corti, 2001;
<bibRefCitation id="F4F8827BA443EDB0EBD46B04206FA068" author="Rousseau, M." refId="ref311222" refString="Rousseau, M. 1983. Etude des Arvicanthis du Museum de Paris par analyses factorielles (Rongeurs, Murides). Mammalia, 47: 525 - 542." year="1983">Rousseau, 1983</bibRefCitation>
), chromosomal (
<bibRefCitation id="AAD26D24365879A0D8BCC0DBD69C4F5C" author="Baskevich, M. I. &amp; L. A. Lavrenchenko" refId="ref22748" refString="Baskevich, M. I., and L. A. Lavrenchenko. 2000. Review of karyological studies and the problems of systematics of Ethiopian Arvicanthis Lesson, 1842 (Rodentia: Muridae). Pp. 209 - 215, in Isolated vertebrate communities in the tropics (G. Rheinwald, ed.). Bonner Zoologische Monographie, 46, 400 pp." year="2000">Baskevich and Lavrenchenko, 2000</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="6C09713FE9F2702C8958E5779047BCD7" author="Corti, M. &amp; M. V. Civitelli &amp; R. Castiglia &amp; A. Bekele &amp; E. Capanna" refId="ref68609" refString="Corti, M., M. V. Civitelli, R. Castiglia, A. Bekele, and E. Capanna. 1996 b. Cytogenetics of the genus Arvicanthis (Rodentia, Muridae). 2. The chromosomes of three species from Ethiopia: A. abyssinicus, A. dembeensis and A. blicki. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 61: 339 - 351." year="1996">
Corti et al., 1996
<emphasis id="BE151E9DB9CABDD7127ECA0A3FB461FF" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">b</emphasis>
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; Orlov et al., 1991
<emphasis id="24B740DD04BFCF7742099050FD19ACB7" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">a</emphasis>
), and mtDNA cytochrome
<emphasis id="07BCCEA60CB31F7D5757D270D6CA1D9A" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">b</emphasis>
sequences (
<bibRefCitation id="9F84F5CA846DE5A8CC5D29757A77CCC9" author="Ducroz, J. - F. &amp; V. Bolobouev &amp; L. Granjon" refId="ref89263" refString="Ducroz, J. - F., V. Bolobouev, and L. Granjon. 1998. A molecular perspective on the systematics and evolution of the genus Arvicanthis (Rodentia, Muridae): Inferences from complete cytochrome b sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 10 (1): 104 - 117." year="1998">Ducroz et al., 1998</bibRefCitation>
), as well as our examination of specimens.
<bibRefCitation id="7B9D1812DBB6B8BD17F846085FFA9147" author="Yalden, D. W. &amp; M. J. Largen" refId="ref397187" refString="Yalden, D. W., and M. J. Largen. 1992. The endemic mammals of Ethiopia. Mammal Review, 22: 115 - 150." year="1992">Yalden and Largen (1992)</bibRefCitation>
speculated that
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<emphasis id="1322A7BB9FCCC781771F0EE74E7A8479" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">A. abyssinicus</emphasis>
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may also occur in
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,
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, and elsewhere but no specimens or any other kind of data suggests its distribution extends beyond the Ethiopian Plateau.
</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="ADC60578BDE733C955FEF57F39811A37" authorityName="Rüppell" authorityYear="1842" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Arvicanthis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="abyssinicus">
<emphasis id="A2FD6FECF24A0059F6D1CC4B7F4D8AE8" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">Arvicanthis abyssinicus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="1BEE485A39FA7718ECE5A2C59F7B2CC5" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">A. blicki</emphasis>
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are the only species of
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<emphasis id="3BD7018204F5821B22D79D07F156F49C" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">Arvicanthis</emphasis>
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endemic to the Ethiopian Plateau; both are part of middle and high altitude grassland and moorland mammal communities also unique to the plateau (
<bibRefCitation id="445E218EC1CA1B316625ED432136656C" author="Demeter, A. &amp; G. Topal" refId="ref80815" refString="Demeter, A., and G. Topal. 1982. Ethiopian mammals in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Budapest), 74: 331 - 349." year="1982">Demeter and Topal, 1982</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="CFCF8081B14B09BBDC0A64AA8472C4E3" author="Rupp, H." refId="ref312607" refString="Rupp, H. 1980. Beitrage zur Systematik, Verbreitung und Okologie athiopischer Nagetiere. Ergebnisse mehrerer Forschungsreisen. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 28 (2): 81 - 123." year="1980">Rupp, 1980</bibRefCitation>
;
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); are more closely related to each other than to any other species of the genus, as judged by morphological, allozymic, and chromosomal traits (Capanna et al., 1996;
<bibRefCitation id="7D38882B8272976DFA548BC7E6CD59B2" author="Capula, M. &amp; M. V. Civitelli &amp; M. Corti &amp; A. Bekele &amp; E. Capanna" refId="ref51137" refString="Capula, M., M. V. Civitelli, M. Corti, A. Bekele, and E. Capanna. 1997. Genetic divergence in the genus Arvicanthis (Rodentia: Murinae). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 25 (5): 403 - 409." year="1997">Capula et al., 1997</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="0ECDEEF26BEDA62CFAB722B34F0372FA" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; M. D. Carleton" refId="ref252333" refString="Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp." year="1993">Musser and Carleton, 1993</bibRefCitation>
); and may have diverged from a common ancestor during the Pleistocene (
<bibRefCitation id="D9818489D4AE7DE8FD330F30B6E3CEA7" author="Capanna, E. &amp; A. Bekele &amp; M. Capula &amp; R. Castiglia &amp; M. V. Civitelli &amp; J. T. Cl. Codjia &amp; M. Corti &amp; C. Fadda" refId="ref50962" refString="Capanna, E., A. Bekele, M. Capula, R. Castiglia, M. V. Civitelli, J. T. Cl. Codjia, M. Corti, and C. Fadda. 1996 b. A multidisciplinary approach to the systematics of the genus Arvicanthis Lesson, 1842 (Rodentia, Murinae). Mammalia, 60 (40): 677 - 696." year="1996">
Capanna et al., 1996
<emphasis id="797558D38A1826C084F31E004D3EC617" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">b</emphasis>
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). Both
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<emphasis id="AC3C0DCFEEAD099C658BDD6B6FF11099" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">A. abyssinicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="8A1A0CA3596ACD69504CCE3FA943A63F" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">A. blicki</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are close phylogenetic allies of
<taxonomicName id="C8F603E5E64CC4E936043950266F3135" baseAuthorityName="E. Geoffroy" baseAuthorityYear="1803" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Arvicanthis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="niloticus">
<emphasis id="F6EDB540898F355B889ED5EE01D34BC1" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">A. niloticus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(which occurs in
<collectingCountry id="72085123380CBB95287FB5834A795DC8" name="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</collectingCountry>
as well as elsewhere) and the three constitute a monophyletic group (
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;
<bibRefCitation id="DDBAA72D52632E7F3BD1B6B799601E7E" author="Corti, M. &amp; M. V. Civitelli &amp; R. Castiglia &amp; A. Bekele &amp; E. Capanna" refId="ref68609" refString="Corti, M., M. V. Civitelli, R. Castiglia, A. Bekele, and E. Capanna. 1996 b. Cytogenetics of the genus Arvicanthis (Rodentia, Muridae). 2. The chromosomes of three species from Ethiopia: A. abyssinicus, A. dembeensis and A. blicki. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 61: 339 - 351." year="1996">
Corti et al., 1996
<emphasis id="6D617F639B549A4AE5F5F17FB0E3CE71" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">b</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
).
<taxonomicName id="C4D7A2B893307AA9D06BE18DE6CACC2A" authorityName="Matschie" authorityYear="1894" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Arvicanthis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="neumanni">
<emphasis id="316B1F2FE4F8F76F6D5B3CC5E1EA369A" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">Arvicanthis neumanni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is another member of the Ethiopian fauna but does not occur on the plateau and also ranges far beyond that country's boundaries.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2C96594C221FF0ADFB8BCF4A779A5DDC" pageNumber="1286">
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regarded
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<emphasis id="4CC0E8A97563B99F8F6789ADB05BCA6D" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">mearnsi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, described as a subspecies of
<taxonomicName id="CB25D1C7D2C4FF5A2398110058F4285D" authorityName="Rüppell" authorityYear="1842" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Arvicanthis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="abyssinicus">
<emphasis id="FE1C33592229B1E848A8BD7D4E7F3148" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">A. abyssinicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation id="0B772769CC5B61CEAC52518AE2907873" author="Frick, C." refId="ref109643" refString="Frick, C. 1914. A new genus and some new species and subspecies of Abyssinian rodents. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 9: 7 - 28." year="1914">Frick (1914)</bibRefCitation>
, to be a subspecies of
<taxonomicName id="60D56E3C9250FA8156C5D7D10B98F289" authorityName="Rüppell" authorityYear="1842" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Arvicanthis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="abyssinicus">
<emphasis id="E1860F284334E07DFB0510E92CB26AAF" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">A. abyssinicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but its qualitative dental and chromatic characteristics fall within the range of variation seen in
<taxonomicName id="D1BAFCE1CAA93952108D383A29678F8D" baseAuthorityName="E. Geoffroy" baseAuthorityYear="1803" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Arvicanthis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="niloticus">
<emphasis id="307781DA2C8234E44A461EBAF560F596" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">A. niloticus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, as
<bibRefCitation id="BF63215B46BFE00A92188C09199245C9" author="Osgood, W. H." refId="ref269005" refString="Osgood, W. H. 1936. New and imperfectly known small mammals from Africa. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 20: 217 - 256." year="1936">Osgood (1936)</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitation id="0DA9767BE6B1DB56EA1107354EC7CFC9" author="Yalden, D. W. &amp; M. J. Largen &amp; D. Kock" refId="ref397218" refString="Yalden, D. W., M. J. Largen, and D. Kock. 1976. Catalogue of the mammals of Ethiopia. 2. Insectivora and Rodentia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 8 (1): 1 - 118." year="1976">Yalden et al. (1976)</bibRefCitation>
noted (discussed by them under either
<emphasis id="583B3C3D99649AA09FE11A750A275FCB" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">lacernatus</emphasis>
or
<taxonomicName id="F2C504BF7C9A742ABFB9B529B4845B1B" baseAuthorityName="Rüppell" baseAuthorityYear="1842" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Arvicanthis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dembeensis">
<emphasis id="36228A7641E97842EF312F9C867B0A07" italics="true" pageNumber="1286">dembeensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
)
</paragraph>
.
</paragraph>
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