Mylomys dybowskii (Pousargues, 1893)

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 : 670

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2014n3a6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4539494

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6502AA63-E053-FFB3-19BC-FDDAFF1E4835

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scientific name

Mylomys dybowskii (Pousargues, 1893)
status

 

Mylomys dybowskii (Pousargues, 1893) View in CoL

Golunda dybowskii Pousargues, 1893: 163 .

Mylomys dybowskii View in CoL – Thomas, 1906: 224.

TYPE LOCALITY. — CAR, Kemo River.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — ZFMK Owl pellets Lake Oku: 91.91.

Morphological characters

A half skull of a juvenile Mylomys has been recovered in owl pellets from a Lake Oku cave. It displays the very characteristic dental pattern of the species (Fig. 8), which is known from western Guinea to Tanzania, in very moist grasslands at altitudes up to 2500 m.

ZFMK

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Mylomys

Loc

Mylomys dybowskii (Pousargues, 1893)

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer 2014
2014
Loc

Golunda dybowskii

Pousargues 1893: 163
1893
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