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<emphasis id="6B35DE506A2A05B5EFB9AC0341D7F0BE" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">Otomys orestes</emphasis>
Thomas 1900
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<emphasis id="1AE1EE2114FFFC49B2C3DE22241D31F6" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">Otomys orestes</emphasis>
Thomas 1900
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.
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<emphasis id="B2CD371F335506E7161523E6C0AFAA28" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1528">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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, Mount
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, Teleki Valley,
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<emphasis id="718B535279748500AC8F24C68C7DA3D0" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1528">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="CB4F9A592314D69E2EB96E985A4D15D2" language="eng" pageNumber="1528">Afroalpine Vlei Rat</vernacularName>
.
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<emphasis id="B6DBC75B1702AC3B5234039A0C72537A" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1528">Synonyms:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="4002109D8105EC307E4DCBAE76FA77A5" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">Otomys malleus</emphasis>
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;
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<emphasis id="5D77C3E6F0573811851F97CC9F443B7B" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">Otomys percivali</emphasis>
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;
<taxonomicName id="534370041F77546384519386F6CEE22D" authority="Osgood 1910" authorityName="Osgood" authorityYear="1910" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Otomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1528" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="thomasi">
<emphasis id="28CE56937658754AF74C5AE016199A53" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">Otomys thomasi</emphasis>
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;
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<emphasis id="7465B994D52138CC21F315E43C36B095" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">Otomys squalus</emphasis>
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;
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<emphasis id="2A1A3F618EDFADC79663E5DED9BF3E8E" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">Otomys zinki</emphasis>
Bohmann 1943
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.
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<emphasis id="B2076774956AFC42002EEFC1878A4D8D" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1528">Distribution:</emphasis>
Discontinuous in alpine settings, ca.
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, of W and C
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and NE
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(
<bibRefCitation id="0239DCFB9D398DAA156E24AE5618C8E6" author="Grimshaw, J. &amp; N. Cordeiro &amp; C. Foley" refId="ref130064" refString="Grimshaw, J., N. Cordeiro and C. Foley. 1995. The mammals of Kilimanjaro. Journal of East African Natural History, 84: 105 - 139." year="1995">Grimshaw et al., 1995</bibRefCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="83B735272F43FEFEB63841AD23C59FB4" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1528">Discussion:</emphasis>
Populations of
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<emphasis id="8BD3894ACEBE65A6A99D2CD93D81ED26" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">O. orestes</emphasis>
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are apparently confined to open habitats above treeline and exhibit a characteristic morphology: medium-sized species with relatively short tail; fur very deep, soft, and dense with creamy-buff post-auricular patches present; cranial arching strongly pronounced, anterior zygomatic arches squared, and distal expansion of nasals less exaggerated; M3 laminae 6-7, lower incisors with deep lateral and shallow medial grooves.
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Thomas (1900
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)
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appreciated such morphological distinctions between
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<emphasis id="EA95809040C2777A4BC1FC4E50DFFDA5" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">O. orestes</emphasis>
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and samples from the middle slopes of Mount
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that he later (1902
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) recognized as
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<emphasis id="B83B8A53BC19452BB2D7601C6791EFB9" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">O. tropicalis</emphasis>
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, as did other early workers with East African
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<emphasis id="FF0632D0485583DCE3D260D88A8BC6D4" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">Otomys</emphasis>
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(
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;
<bibRefCitation id="9F190970E8DBC1F3E0740E0C4A804DF5" author="Dollman, G." refId="ref87561" refString="Dollman, G. 1915. On the swamp-rats (Otomys) of East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 15: 149 - 170." year="1915">Dollman, 1915</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="0499FD4E6C275363DA3F86EFB3690370" 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>
;
<bibRefCitation id="B12A7EB9FBA47D284C21E975A52C6C9E" author="Lawrence, B. &amp; A. Loveridge" refId="ref207132" refString="Lawrence, B., and A. Loveridge. 1953. Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. I. Mammals from Nyasaland and Tete. With notes on the genus Otomys. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 110: 1 - 80." year="1953">Lawrence and Loveridge, 1953</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation id="573DAEADA89EB68EF679D30AE621DD5D" author="Bohmann, L., von" refId="ref35047" refString="Bohmann, L., von. 1952. Die afrikanische Nagergattung Otomys F. Cuvier. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 18: 1 - 80." year="1952">Bohmann (1952)</bibRefCitation>
also considered the two Mount Kenyan series as separate species, although he viewed
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<emphasis id="58C94E579DBAFC73E61BDE2B07A1387B" italics="true" pageNumber="1528">orestes</emphasis>
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as a synonym of a broadly, if patchily, distributed
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O.
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(as followed by
<bibRefCitation id="F0AAF082A1C43529CE794EFCB6C7247E" 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>
;
<bibRefCitation id="6BF9D49F0D29F3602A3AC02635CEFC24" 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 others). M3 lamination (
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) and incisor corrugation (two deep grooves in
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) contradict this assignment and recommend rigorous evaluation of their level of relationship and taxonomic status. Similar attention should be devoted to the homogeneity of the included taxa, which vary in development of the second lower incisor groove (indistinct to moderate) and modal number of M3 laminae (6 or 7).
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