Praomys Thomas, 1915

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer, 2014, African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon, Zoosystema 36 (3), pp. 647-690 : 661

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2014n3a6

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scientific name

Praomys Thomas, 1915
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Genus Praomys Thomas, 1915 View in CoL

Two species of Praomys : P. hartwigi Eisentraut, 1968 and P. jacksoni (de Winton, 1897) have already been observed on Mt Oku by Fülling (1992), while Hutterer et al. (1992) also reported P. obscurus Hutterer & Dieterlen, 1992 in the northeast of Bamenda Plateau (Gotel Mountains and Mambilla plateau). The standard external measurements for the new specimens are presented in Table 6.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

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