Praomys misonnei Van der Straeten & Dieterlen, 1987

Decher, Jan, Norris, Ryan W., Abedi-Lartey, Michael, Oppong, James, Hutterer, Rainer, Weinbrenner, Martin, Koch, Martin, Podsiadlowski, Lars & Kilpatrick, C. William, 2021, A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation, Zoosystema 43 (14), pp. 253-281 : 262

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4783959
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F78791-FF90-FFBB-FEA9-4DB6FB93FD32
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scientific name	Praomys misonnei Van der Straeten & Dieterlen, 1987
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Praomys misonnei Van der Straeten & Dieterlen, 1987 View in CoL

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Praomys misonnei Van der Straeten & Dieterlen, 1987: 3 View in CoL .

COMMON NAME. — Misonne’s Soft-furred Rat.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Agumatsa Wildlife Sanctuary • 5 ♂; USNM 590095-590098 View Materials , SMF 91365 • 12 ♀; USNM 590093 View Materials , 590094 View Materials , USNM 590115 View Materials , 590116 View Materials , SMF 91435, 91363 View Materials , 91366 View Materials , 91367-91369 View Materials , 93747 View Materials , ZTNHC 953 • 1?; USNM 590117 View Materials . Apesokubi • 7 ♂; USNM 590099 View Materials , SMF 91374 + 91377, ZTNHC 961 , 962 , 964 , UVM VR062 View Materials • 5 ♀; USNM 590100 View Materials , USNM 590118 – 590120 View Materials , SMF 91375. Kalakpa Resource Reserve (see Fig. 5 View FIG ) • 8 ♂; USNM 590080 View Materials + 590081, USNM 590083-590085 View Materials , USNM 590088 View Materials , USNM 590091 View Materials , USNM 590113 View Materials , ZTNHC 949 • 6 ♀; USNM 590082 View Materials , USNM 590086 View Materials + 590087, USNM 590089 View Materials + 590090, USNM 590114 View Materials • 1?; USNM 590079 View Materials . Kyabobo National Park • 3 ♀; USNM 590121-590123 View Materials . Shiare • 1 ♀; USNM 590124 View Materials • 2♀; SMF 91372 + 91373. Tagbo-Falls • 1 ♂; USNM 590103 View Materials ; 1 ♀; USNM 590125 View Materials .

REMARK

With 190 captured individuals, Praomys misonnei was the most frequently caught species in the Volta Region, followed by Mus (Nannomys) musculoides Temminck, 1853 (n = 23) and Hylomyscus pamfi (n = 7). All Praomys had been tentatively identified as P. tullbergi in the field, but a recent molecular follow-up study included seven of our specimens from Agumatsa, Apesokubi and Shiare and showed that they all belonged to P. misonnei , reinforcing that P. tullbergi is limited to the Upper Guinea Region, west of the Volta River and P. misonnei to the Dahomey Gap region into Central Africa ( Nicolas et al. 2010a, 2011) with the Volta River forming the zoogeographic barrier between the two species. Our specimens were part of their Clade II, which is restricted to the Ghana-Togo Highlands and Dahomey Gap area.

CONSERVATION STATUS. — Praomys misonnei is listed as “Least Concern” on the 2019 IUCN Red List, but the species range has not yet been updated to include the Lower Guinea Region based on Nicolas et al. (2010a, 2011).

SMF	Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg
UVM	Zadock Thompson Natural History Collection, University of Vermont

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Muridae
Genus	Praomys