Hylomyscus denniae (Thomas, 1906)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 599

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284012

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scientific name

Hylomyscus denniae (Thomas, 1906)
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Hylomyscus denniae (Thomas, 1906) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 18:144.

TYPE LOCALITY: Uganda, Mubuku Valley, Ruwenzori East, 7000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Montane forest islands from WC Angola, extreme E Zaire, Uganda W Rwanda, and Kenya through Tanzania to NE Zambia.

SYNONYMS: anselli, endorobae , vulcanorum.

COMMENTS: The species was superficially reviewed by Hatt (1940a) and more thoroughly by Bishop (1979). The records of H. carillus from Chitau and Hanha in WC Angola ( Hill and Carter, 1941:98) are based on examples of H. denniae . additional samples (in the Field Museum of Natural History) were collected in the same region on Mt. Moco and Mt. Soque. Although a long way west from the nearest records of H. denniae , most morphological characteristics of the Angolan series fall within the range of variation among samples now defined as H. denniae . That variation, however, is appreciable, especially in body size, and its significance in determining whether one or more species is present in what is now regarded as denniae has to be assessed by systematic revision.

Bishop, L. R. 1979. Notes on Praomys (Hylomyscus) in eastern Africa. Mammalia, 43: 521 - 530.

Hatt, R. T. 1940 a. Lagomorpha and Rodentia other than Sciuridae, Anomaluridae and Idiuridae, collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 76 (9): 457 - 604.

Hill, J. E., and T. D. Carter. 1941. The mammals of Angola, Africa. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 78 (1): 1 - 211.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Hylomyscus