Lophuromys (Lophuromys) ansorgei De Winton 1896

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1203

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scientific name	Lophuromys (Lophuromys) ansorgei De Winton 1896
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Lophuromys (Lophuromys) ansorgei De Winton 1896 View in CoL

Lophuromys (Lophuromys) ansorgei De Winton 1896 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1896: 607.

Type Locality: Kenya, Nyanza Province, Mumia’s.

Vernacular Names: Ansorge's Brush-furred Rat.

Synonyms: Lophuromys (Lophuromys) manteufeli Matschie 1911 ; Lophuromys (Lophuromys) pyrrhus Heller 1911 .

Distribution: West Africa from lower reaches of the Congo River in E Dem. Rep. Congo (Boma, Kinshasa) and possibly S Cameroon, and in E Africa from Uganda through W Kenya to N Tanzania.

Discussion: Subgenus Lophuromys , L. sikapusi species complex (W. Verheyen et al., 2000). Usually included in L. sikapusi , but regarded as a separate species by W. Verheyen et al. (1997, 2000). The species has yet to be fully revised and its geographic range delineated; the distribution recorded here is extracted from W. Verheyen et al. (1997, 2000). Geographic range of L. ansorgei either extends from East Africa along the northern and southern rim of the Congolese Central Forest Block to the lower reaches of the Congo River, or the range along the lower Congo is a remnant of a once more expansive distribution (W. Verheyen et al., 2000). Dieterlen (1987) discussed ansorgei and pyrrhus as subspecies of L. sikapusi .

References

Dieterlen, F. 1987. Neue Erkenntnisse uber afrikanische Burstenhaarmause, Gattung Lophuromys (Muridae; Rodentia). Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 38: 183 - 194.

Heller, E. 1911. New species of rodents and carnivores from equatorial Africa. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 56: 1 - 16.

Matschie, P. 1911. Uber einige Saugetiere aus Muansa am Victoria-Nyansa. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde, Berlin, 8: 333 - 343.

Verheyen, W. N., J. Hulselmans, M. Colyn, and R. Hutterer. 1997. Systematics and zoogeography of the small mammal fauna of Cameroun: Description of two new Lophuromys (Rodentia: Muridae) endemic to Mount Cameroun and Mount Oku. Bulletin de L'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie, 67: 163 - 186.

Verheyen, W., T. Dierckx, and J. Hulselmans. 2000. The brush-furred rats of Angola and southern Congo: description of a new taxon of the Lophuromys sikapusi species complex. Bulletin de L'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie, 70: 253 - 267.