Otomys angoniensis Wroughton, 1906

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 445

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353031

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7207003

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scientific name

Otomys angoniensis Wroughton, 1906
status

 

Otomys angoniensis Wroughton, 1906 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 18:274.

TYPE LOCALITY: Malawi (= Nyasaland), Angoniland, M'Kombhuie, 8,000 ft. (2438 m) .

DISTRIBUTION: Cape Prov. ( South Africa) to Kenya.

COMMENT: Includes tugelensis; see Misonne, 1974, Part 6:33, who also included maximus in this species; but Swanepoel et al., 1980, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 32(7): 161, considered maximus a distinct species.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008111007001 as O. tugelensis.

Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Swanepoel, P., R. H. N. Smithers, and I. L. Rautenbach. 1980. A checklist and numbering system of the extant mammals of the Southern African Subregion. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 32: 155 - 196.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Otomys