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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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TYPE LOCALITY:
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, Simien Prov., Simien Mtns, Entschetqab (see
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)
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.
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DISTRIBUTION:
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, between
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SYNONYMS:
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fluvicinctus, rufodorsalis,
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COMMENTS: An Ethiopian endemic and morphologically distinctive species whose closest relative is
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,
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another Ethiopian endemic. Historically the species was perceived to embrace forms occurring from
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south to
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(
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;
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;
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), but
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discussed several of
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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
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and
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which have been associated with it will need other allocation.&quot; This view has been reinforced by morphometric analyses (
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), and our examination of specimens.
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and
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are the only species of
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endemic to
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, both are part of middle and high altitude grassland and moorland endemic mammal faunas of
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(
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;
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Yalden, D. W." box="[1568,1794,1869,1908]" pageId="75" pageNumber="576" refId="ref397139" refString="Yalden, D. W. 1988. Small mammals of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. African Journal of Ecology, 26: 281 - 294." year="1988">Yalden, 1988</bibRefCitation>
), and both are more closely related to each other than to any other species of the genus.
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and
<emphasis box="[944,1147,1955,1993]" italics="true" pageId="75" pageNumber="576">A. somalicus</emphasis>
also occur in
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(see those accounts), but their ranges also extend far beyond that country's boundaries.
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<bibRefCitation author="Rousseau, M." box="[433,713,2038,2075]" pageId="75" pageNumber="576" 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>
regarded
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described as a subspecies of
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by
<bibRefCitation author="Frick, C." box="[392,594,2079,2117]" pageId="75" pageNumber="576" 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 also be a subspecies of
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but its qualitative dental and chromatic characteristics fall within the range of variation seen in
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as
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and
<bibRefCitation author="Yalden, D. W. &amp; M. J. Largen &amp; D. Kock" box="[729,1061,2162,2200]" pageId="75" pageNumber="576" 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
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or
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</paragraph>
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Chromosomal data reported by Orlov et al. (1992) within the context of studying chromosomal variation among Ethiopian samples of
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