Colomys goslingi Thomas and Wroughton, 1907

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 : 586

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Colomys goslingi Thomas and Wroughton, 1907
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Colomys goslingi Thomas and Wroughton, 1907 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 19:380.

TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire, Uele River, Gambi .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded from Liberia (Lofa), Cameroon, NE Angola, NW Zambia, Zaire, Ruanda, Uganda, E Kenya, S Sudan, and W Ethiopia; limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: bicolor , denti , eisentrauti , plumbeus , ruandensis.

COMMENTS: Study of external, cranial, and dental variation in context of taxonomic revision was provided by Dieterlen (1983). Colomys goslingi is a carnivore preying on limnetic macroinvertebrates and small vertebrates, and possesses special morphological and neurological adaptations as well as behavioral repitoire that are correlated with extracting such a diet from streams ( Dieterlen and Statzner, 1981; Stephan and Dieterlen, 1982). The species is apparently restricted to banks of small flowing streams in tropical rain forest ( Dieterlen, 1983), although it has been taken along streams in grassland far from forest ( Hayman, 1966). Comparisons with Neotropical ichthyomyines provided by Voss (1988).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Colomys

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Colomys goslingi Thomas and Wroughton, 1907

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

Colomys goslingi

Thomas and Wroughton 1907: 380
1907
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