Heterocephalus glaber Riippell, 1842

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 772

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353083

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7279017

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scientific name

Heterocephalus glaber Riippell, 1842
status

 

Heterocephalus glaber Riippell, 1842 View in CoL . Mus. Senckenbergianum Abh., 3(2):99.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Shoa .

DISTRIBUTION: C Somalia, C and E Ethiopia, C and S Kenya.

STATUS: Common.

SYNONYMS: ansorgei, dunni, phillipsi, progrediens, scortecci, stygius.

COMMENTS: According to Honeycutt et al. (1991:58) genetic data indicate there are two geographic groups of this species in Kenya. The chromosome no. is 2n=60.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Bathyergidae

Genus

Heterocephalus

Loc

Heterocephalus glaber Riippell, 1842

Charles A. Woods 1993
1993
Loc

Heterocephalus glaber

Riippell 1842: 99
1842
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