Praomys morio (Trouessart, 1881)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 643

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scientific name

Praomys morio (Trouessart, 1881)
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Praomys morio (Trouessart, 1881) View in CoL . Bull. Soc. Etudes Sci. Angers, 10:121.

TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon, Mt. Cameroon, 7000 ft; see Rosevear (1969:399) .

DISTRIBUTION: Mt. Cameroon.

SYNONYMS: maurus (of Gray, 1862, not Waterhouse, 1839).

COMMENTS: A member of the P. tullbergi complex. We restrict P. morio to Mt. Cameroon, although Eisentraut (1970) recorded it from Bioko, and Petter (1965) discussed samples from the Central African Republic. The species requires definition; alledged distinctions between it and P. tullbergi may not reflect specific differences (Hutterer, in litt.). Our study revealed that series from outside of Mt. Cameroon identified as morio are either tullbergi or an undescribed species of Praomys (the series from Central African Republic, for example).

Eisentraut, M. 1970. Die Verbreitung der Muriden-Gattung Praomys auf Fernando Po und in Westkamerun. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 35: 1 - 15.

Petter, F. 1965. Les Praomys d'Afrique Centrale. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 30: 54 - 60.

Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604.

Waterhouse, G. R. 1839. Observations on the Rodentia with a view to point out groups as indicated by the structure of the crania in this order of mammals. Magazine of Natural History, ser. 2, 3: 90 - 96.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Praomys