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Thomas 1888
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<emphasis id="79B9D4E9CE17902A54F8B4C08366D062" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">Lophuromys (Lophuromys) flavopunctatus</emphasis>
Thomas 1888
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,
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, Shoa (=Shewa) Province, probably obtained at Ankober,
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(
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) NE
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(
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Thomas, 1888
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),
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</quantity>
(coordinates given by W.
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="AE0AFA5430F23B002708A8BC08408B58" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1206">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="4F44FD04453F6990F5F7C1808C9CAF9B" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">Lophuromys (Lophuromys) giaquintoi</emphasis>
(Toschi 1946)
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;
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<emphasis id="58118C97E2EDB247107E6F782C623401" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">Lophuromys (Lophuromys) zaphiri</emphasis>
Thomas 1906
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.
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<emphasis id="3C183BDBE4C91AF4CD2C31D2241AA12A" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1206">Distribution:</emphasis>
Endemic to Ethiopian plateau west of the Rift Valley (
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; W.
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="F9E28DA3CAEE209C58582F822466D980" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1206">Conservation:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="D6766FF25F0B1E92AF7F801B2D39A0EA">IUCN</collectionCode>
Lower Risk (lc).
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<emphasis id="D13A5063AD13200837AF219A9E64746B" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1206">Discussion:</emphasis>
Subgenus
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<emphasis id="9DE044C527D1D3ECD89085BE366AFC40" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">Lophuromys</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="CDAE62185238F8AF857DAFA7E2446271" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">L. flavopunctatus</emphasis>
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species group (W.
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). Originally described as a species, which later came to embrace Ethiopian
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<emphasis id="10AC006321DCE833A21A953B6D33BCDF" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">brunneus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="25612964C2FE9A6FDBF62A7099AC2076" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">simensis</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="C1F0CA91AC30CC0C0D50F0FDC9FF7985" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">zaphiri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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; G. M.
<bibRefCitation id="A6143898F4FEEEE37BE6E620598B1D84" 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="B0165E1E55E1EDBB2D547BB69B9E2823" 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 eventually a dozen taxa representing a geographic range with an isolated segment in highlands of
<collectingCountry id="D2CAE7DAA50DBF1F49D30823D8B29D68" name="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</collectingCountry>
, and a vast distribution outside of that region, extending from NE
<collectingCountry id="880F1308D19DB2DB8CB5EEC00788BF9E" name="Angola">Angola</collectingCountry>
through the
<collectingCountry id="74D478BA188A4CB2D155CD9EAAA735EA" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congo</collectingCountry>
basin to
<collectingCountry id="DD407413599C34F31D6EFA057DD0E5D2" name="Uganda">Uganda</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="52AB46DB552E03072E0A3175615355FC" name="Kenya">Kenya</collectingCountry>
,
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, and south to
<collectingCountry id="3597FDF33FE013E367217928B7F26380" name="Malawi">Malawi</collectingCountry>
, N
<collectingCountry id="C653472BBC0A4B247D651266D553ED40" name="Zambia">Zambia</collectingCountry>
and N
<collectingCountry id="5A272356D3B553BC5E067236E4042BED" name="Mozambique">Mozambique</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="32A07741CD3422AB206B57E85499BAA4" author="Dieterlen, F." refId="ref84442" refString="Dieterlen, F. 1976 b. Die afrikanische Muridengattung Lophuromys Peters, 1874. Vergleiche an Hand neuer Daten zur Morphologie, Okologie und Biologie. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, ser. A (Biologie), 285: 1 - 96." year="1976">
Dieterlen, 1976
<emphasis id="6FC6436C423F04EE871F33035943FDCA" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">b</emphasis>
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;
<bibRefCitation id="F3F5CEE9DAAF2E08872521D2C7EFC381" 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="CFDF5DF060687BAED08255E23367D69A" 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>
). The peculiar range and appreciable morphological variation among samples prompted
<bibRefCitation id="02E58E4424AFCA9ED4F35ECD17E4B04C" 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>
to suggest that more than one species was present, which has been demonstrated by recent analyses of allozymic (
<bibRefCitation id="6984FD76B17445D39636B02B088B3D4A" author="Lavrenchenko, L. A. &amp; A. N. Milishnikov &amp; A. A. Warshavsky" refId="ref206486" refString="Lavrenchenko, L. A., A. N. Milishnikov, and A. A. Warshavsky. 2000. Allozymic phylogeny: Evidence for coherent adaptive patterns of speciation in Ethiopian endemic rodents from an isolated montane massif. Pp. 245 - 253, in Isolated vertebrate communities in the Tropics. Proceedings of the 4 th International Symposium, Bonn (G. Rheinwald, ed.). Bonner Zoologische Monographien, 46: 400 pp." year="2000">Lavrenchenko et al., 2000</bibRefCitation>
), chromosomal (
<bibRefCitation id="E73EFB0D065399D8F188BBCD65749072" author="Aniskin, V. M. &amp; L. A. Lavrenchenko &amp; A. A. Varshavskii &amp; A. N. Milishnikov" refId="ref10826" refString="Aniskin, V. M., L. A. Lavrenchenko, A. A. Varshavskii, and A. N. Milishnikov. 1997. [Karyotypic differentiation of three harsh-furred mouse species of genus Lophuromys (Murinae, Rodentia) from the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia]. Genetika, 33 (7): 967 - 973 (in Russian, with English summary)." year="1997">Aniskin et al., 1997</bibRefCitation>
), and morphological, morphometric, and molecular data (
<bibRefCitation id="11A0E25254AAA7CBCF62F2190D6978E3" author="Lavrenchenko, L. A. &amp; W. N. Verheyen &amp; J. Hulselmans" refId="ref206370" refString="Lavrenchenko, L. A., W. N. Verheyen, and J. Hulselmans. 1998 b. Systematic and distributional notes on the Lophuromys flavopunctatus Thomas, 1888 species-complex in Ethiopia (Muridae-Rodentia). Bulletin de L'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Biologie, 68: 199 - 214." year="1998">
Lavrenchenko et al., 1998
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; W.
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). What was once considered a single species is now a complex containing at least 11 species, with
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being restricted to the Ethiopian plateau west of the Rift Valley (W.
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), as
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had earlier defined it. Association of the two synonyms with
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demonstrated by
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Lavrenchenko et al. (1998
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and W.
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. Closest relatives of
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<emphasis id="21EADEC9A8181A4C60DEB87B8782F2E0" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">L. flavopunctatus</emphasis>
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are the Ethiopian endemics
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<emphasis id="606A04FDA3E379919F6C5E78BEAA9F3A" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">L. brevicaudus</emphasis>
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and
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; all other species in the complex are members of the
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<emphasis id="719EBF4D58408DBF1E7D05120B578530" italics="true" pageNumber="1206">L. aquilus</emphasis>
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species group (W.
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). See account of
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.
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