Mastomys Thomas, 1915

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 : 609

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Mastomys Thomas, 1915
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Mastomys Thomas, 1915 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 16:477.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus coucha Smith, 1834 View in CoL .

COMMENTS: The historical taxonomic use of Mastomys as a genus or subgenus of either Rattus or Praomys is summarized by Meester et al. (1986). Important to studies of specific diversity, biogeography, and medicine, samples of Mastomys have been examined in several contexts (see reviews by Keogh and Price, 1981, and Skinner and Smithers, 1990). Definition of species by chromosomal and biochemical traits from some regions ( Duplantier et al., 1990a; Green et al., 1980; Hubert et al., 1983) has proceeded faster than definitions based on morphology. The result is a new view of species-diversity in the genus, but also an ignorance of morphological limits of those species and their real geographic distributions. Robbins and Van der Straeten (1989) analyzed all the taxa associated with Mastomys but did not allocate any of them to species. We can tie only those associated primarily with South African samples to species following Meester et al. (1986) but otherwise list no synonyms and refer readers to Robbins and Van der Straeten (1989). The genus requires careful taxonomic revision.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

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Mastomys Thomas, 1915

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton 1993
1993
Loc

Mastomys

Thomas 1915: 477
1915
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