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<emphasis id="21559CF3FE4CF44CEED8A6E9ADBF9D6A" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys dybowskii</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="3D9A0F6A5110E793F1B14424F8281DFE" ID-CoL="4546R" authority="(Pousargues 1893)" baseAuthorityName="Pousargues" baseAuthorityYear="1893" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1412" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dybowskii">
<emphasis id="BD5D7A38E9AFB189EFCBDEE1B7027405" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">[Mylomys] dybowskii</emphasis>
(Pousargues 1893)
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="4F023216C1A3ABB614E9D6A699071A9A" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1412">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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<collectingCountry id="CC9E0822499B68772222992A4C7BFAEC" name="Central African Republic">Central African Republic</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingRegion id="BF9CBCF39D7D137BE21DFBAD74FFD978" country="Central African Republic" name="Kemo">Kemo</collectingRegion>
River.
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<emphasis id="913EB94440B0E807C2AF7B4428F3D6B7" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1412">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="483A8B7BA00621A345F59866AADEADC1" language="eng" pageNumber="1412">Common Mylomys</vernacularName>
.
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<emphasis id="20D6B2A2F6CE1C36C3F1DB2D09013445" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1412">Synonyms:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="2BF8D56191E88F9496C88DD9592057BC" authority="Thomas 1915" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1412" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="alberti">
<emphasis id="78F6F902C8F6BA7192FF8B50D86346A7" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys alberti</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="8BAC62B0E3298CB647BADD4449C8D637" author="Thomas, O." refId="ref353986" refString="Thomas, O. 1915. List of mammals (exclusive of Ungulata) collected on the Upper Congo by Dr. Christy for the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 16: 465 - 481." year="1915">Thomas 1915</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="EC00FD589355620F96BEAB187C9D9034" authority="Thomas 1917" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1917" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1412" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="christyi">
<emphasis id="C15F6802FA3B77C429444B489E609CA3" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys christyi</emphasis>
Thomas 1917
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="7C8D372B53A84E6346141CD2019C5CA0" authority="Thomas 1906" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1906" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1412" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cuninghamei">
<emphasis id="07AB9EEF40527B32E8CD742A9893A3AD" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys cuninghamei</emphasis>
Thomas 1906
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="AB46241A8E66AB643BFB810A47C8454A" authority="Hayman 1935" authorityName="Hayman" authorityYear="1935" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1412" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lowei">
<emphasis id="2F5067D3C4DEF2B6EA35F53522B59705" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys lowei</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="05808B532ECC84AF57ACE18B736D2467" 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>
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="23AF6518599572660A369C4096ABB5D2" authority="Thomas 1915" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1412" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lutescens">
<emphasis id="A06213F4433926420EC0F3340DE7F49B" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys lutescens</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="928B363EF1ED939B83943A8A959ACA91" author="Thomas, O." refId="ref353986" refString="Thomas, O. 1915. List of mammals (exclusive of Ungulata) collected on the Upper Congo by Dr. Christy for the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 16: 465 - 481." year="1915">Thomas 1915</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="83E11CD2865F783D55ED172BFFD93456" authority="Lönnberg 1916" authorityName="Lönnberg" authorityYear="1916" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1412" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="massaicus">
<emphasis id="63133FCD6AA4814C0776529E9E9E3DCE" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys massaicus</emphasis>
Lönnberg 1916
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="007DA47CE5E5B064A212389C091B3560" authority="(Thomas 1906)" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1906" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1412" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rex">
<emphasis id="60F8C37A65D35FF59A4241652237A0FB" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys rex</emphasis>
(Thomas 1906)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="019E2DDE0D6D13D9C04B527F09D703B2" authority="Hayman 1939" authorityName="Hayman" authorityYear="1939" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1412" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="richardi">
<emphasis id="C517D498A8E7ACBDAE16157C4D2E68E6" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys richardi</emphasis>
Hayman 1939
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="CAF23048B74DBA4EC9A4B05B8D3C3C45" authority="(Heller 1910)" baseAuthorityName="Heller" baseAuthorityYear="1910" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1412" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="roosevelti">
<emphasis id="B3B49E9366C39BD3E711150BD2F64EED" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys roosevelti</emphasis>
(Heller 1910)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="D2E4D6764ECD10F1DBADFD62E8780D19" pageNumber="1412">
<emphasis id="1406FB69545C74D31879EFA706020928" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1412">Distribution:</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="6B05AC1B3908B4B2E28707E1484A4599" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
(Mt Nimba), Côte dIvoire,
<collectingCountry id="8A074B02D44D6A1D1FD032F7770DE49A" name="Ghana">Ghana</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EA1B5BDB2A3EAEA2878A9B7308C719BC" 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>
), S
<collectingCountry id="A122F22E31952738EA0BD6C00E3F1573" name="Cameroon">Cameroon</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="5C6E2C5027ED8ECBB74555B8CBFABBEC" name="Republic of the Congo">Republic of Congo</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="40B8C2AB778D99A9AC944176095ECAB4" name="Central African Republic">Central African Republic</collectingCountry>
, W, N and E Dem. Rep.
<collectingCountry id="560C908A98FDF79352EA462AD29BACBA" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congo</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F86CA1657441C6ABC29F8DADF5FEB455" name="Rwanda">Rwanda</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="56DDB55F83789E45FCF1868021655E8F" name="Tanzania">Tanzania</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="0DA687A2AD1902CB8C722DEA19CC8358" author="Swynnerton, G. H. &amp; R. W. Hayman" refId="ref345567" refString="Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20 (6): 274 - 392." year="1951">Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951</bibRefCitation>
),
<collectingCountry id="590D52F82E7C06F81ED37A2FD3E8EA37" name="Kenya">Kenya</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="AF1FF970FBD7080BC4C75545E85C1677" author="Hollister, N." refId="ref157105" refString="Hollister, N. 1919. East African mammals in the United States National Museum. Part II. Rodentia, Lagomorpha, and Tubulidentata. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 99 (2): 1 - 184." year="1919">Hollister, 1919</bibRefCitation>
),
<collectingCountry id="9C25C0397F76FF3D54DA85EC1FB95B86" name="Uganda">Uganda</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="6E72A1721C3FD76CCC51138485C4B397" author="Delany, M. J." 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>
), and S
<collectingCountry id="F7A398A6AA7E190FFC255770F6858686" name="Sudan">Sudan</collectingCountry>
(Setzer, 1958); abstracted from
<bibRefCitation id="20C6AAC4E6F94D8F547D9CDAC1F099D3" author="Rosevear, D. R." refId="ref310288" refString="Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604." year="1969">Rosevear (1969)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="5445E437D817AFF96B48B5BB12FEB1A2" author="Misonne, X." 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>
, many faunal reports, and specimens examined in
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,
<collectionCode id="7D185ED6129147508A4940EE72952441">BMNH</collectionCode>
,
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, and
<collectionCode id="C6CF92941F52E17362A773FBBC01AD71" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" name="Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">USNM</collectionCode>
.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B52AD2F17EAE3F37039219C75F0A506E" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1412">Conservation:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="E0E7017EA16A0D1DA64F68F7F709AF3B">IUCN</collectionCode>
Lower Risk (lc).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="360588E4E03ACA1730C71A21CAF37FB0" pageNumber="1412" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="B95CC7F988F0DA8BD051AC4FB09FF103" pageNumber="1412">
<emphasis id="FFE6C99C9C88419253128C954FE42591" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1412">Discussion:</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="0B9119E9102620F1B6EA2ECD89D2A26E" author="Hatt, R. T." refId="ref142554" refString="Hatt, R. T. 1940 a. Lagomorpha and Rodentia other than Sciuridae, Anomaluridae and Idiuridae, collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 76 (9): 457 - 604." year="1940">
Hatt (1940
<emphasis id="46D66381486F8607350DF9537271D37F" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">a</emphasis>
)
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noted that the cotypes of
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<emphasis id="1C10D7F6C17EAF102E1886B15CF41E33" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">dybowskii</emphasis>
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are examples of
<taxonomicName id="45D19B7526C66E0F0FA99870FEB5EC02" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1906" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="AE23F22064D4EB7E831BCA4C0085EBF7" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys</emphasis>
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, not
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<emphasis id="CC8DFC353FC309482375E5C5CC7805D7" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Pelomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
under which the name had been listed (
<bibRefCitation id="3C2D5D8CDE622ADC54BD313DD47E51A4" 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>
), and selected a
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. The identity was verified by F.
<bibRefCitation id="F3664E96DEF1115CA607153EE576E31F" author="Petter, F." refId="ref283444" refString="Petter, F. 1962 b. Note de nomenclature sur le genere Mylomys (Rongeurs Murides). Mammalia, 26: 575." year="1962">
Petter (1962
<emphasis id="0D21F9361CEB1DB342844624BEBDAFDA" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">b</emphasis>
)
</bibRefCitation>
, who also thought there were two species in the genus,
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<emphasis id="93A68EBF16E493CF698AE577175E50DE" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">M. dybowskii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the West African
<taxonomicName id="3F121B1E8AEF8D97CD049C83B9AD45C3" authorityName="Hayman" authorityYear="1935" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lowei">
<emphasis id="C8F036E19B1F1444924AFB1061D692CD" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">M. lowei</emphasis>
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, named by
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as a subspecies of
<taxonomicName id="26F8095B1F4BE454A3C100D37C41E00A" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1906" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cuninghamei">
<emphasis id="E71AA52FB9DB5EB6B72A4E595D521CE6" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">M. cuninghamei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="13F4F25314E580B82DAC3BC8373A121C" author="Rosevear, D. R." refId="ref310288" refString="Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604." year="1969">Rosevear (1969)</bibRefCitation>
followed F. Petter in recognizing
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<emphasis id="A0A5C5649A523A2A69B54F1CAB01AB53" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">M. lowei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and in turn was followed by
<bibRefCitation id="E4C507BDE9CE5BB7D8B87287D3E2A456" 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="835B43A19A46D31C462C2DAC5A428F76" 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 (1935:934)</bibRefCitation>
, however, regarded all forms to be part of a single species: &quot;In considering what value to place on this Ashanti form [
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<emphasis id="50905D53EC7F17306CC4ADAD1017D045" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">lowei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
] it has seemed best to regard all the known
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<emphasis id="11C127023C21DBCB03A56C6A87281C51" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">Mylomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a subspecies of the original
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<emphasis id="D44D2B221AD9964FA4174B6052F5C4D0" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">cuninghamei</emphasis>
Thos. From
</taxonomicName>
that small and rather dark form, through the middle-sized
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<emphasis id="076C3F4D318981A8FCE2FE27C2D42063" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">lutescens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="811B5E6B34234F5C04B158769C3CFEFD" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1917" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="christyi">
<emphasis id="B736CEA86B58DAD9CF67D3365F537AFD" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">christyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to the large brightly-coloured races
<taxonomicName id="D3AC66EBD2D23145694F81E7C05BE6E4" baseAuthorityName="Heller" baseAuthorityYear="1910" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mylomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="roosevelti">
<emphasis id="0D727EEA96F08491EE755337C3B7D401" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">roosevelti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="FD0BD6DD0CEE5B2BD135E6327F741255" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">alberti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and the present form, the differences lie chiefly in comparative size and intensity of colouring. In my opinion the characters of
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<emphasis id="8005C6C92491687A8D04BB8BF8D71B81" italics="true" pageNumber="1412">lowei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are not sufficient to justify full specific differentiation.&quot; Significance of geographic variation in chromatic and morphological traits has yet to be assessed by critical systematic revision; whether the genus is monotypic, contains the two species listed here, or consists of more than two is unresolved. Chromosomal data available for samples from
<collectingCountry id="833F38B644B012412877875E00C32379" name="Central African Republic">Central African Republic</collectingCountry>
(Matthey, 1970) and Mt Nimba (
<collectingCountry id="673CE2AF71518689DC0189C4CEC441F5" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
;
<bibRefCitation id="1BCE3BCB8A595BC615CA5553351266E6" author="Gautun, J. - C. &amp; I. Sankhon &amp; M. Tranier" refId="ref115743" refString="Gautun, J. - C., I. Sankhon, and M. Tranier. 1986. Nouvelle contribution a la connaissance des rongeurs du massif guineen des monts Nimba (Afrique occidentale). Systematique et apercu quantitatif. Mammalia, 50: 205 - 217." year="1986">Gautun et al., 1986</bibRefCitation>
).
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