NESOMYIDAE Major, 1897

Amori, Giovanni, Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Decher, Jan, Assou, Delagnon, Gippoliti, Spartaco & Luiselli, Luca, 2016, Non-marine mammals of Togo (West Africa): an annotated checklist, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 201-244 : 230

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a3

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:059171D0-809D-47F5-9030-669522C36E69

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scientific name

NESOMYIDAE Major, 1897
status

 

Family NESOMYIDAE Major, 1897 View in CoL

Cricetomys sp.

REMARK

Olayemi et al. (2012) raise the West African “ emini” to species status. Several records at NMNH under Cricetomys sp. certainly pertain to this species.

Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse, 1840

VOUCHERS. — Vouchers of this species are available from Haho- Baoué (NMNH), Sokodé, and Sansanné-Mango (ZMB).

OLAYEMI A., NICOLAS V., HULSELMANS J., MISSOUP A. D., FICHET- CALVET E., AMUNDALA D., DUDU A., DIERCKX T., WENDE- LEN W., LEIRS H. & VERHEYEN E. 2012. - Taxonomy of the African giant pouched rats (Nesomyidae: Cricetomys): molecular and craniometric evidence support an unexpected high species diversity. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 700 - 719.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Nesomyidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Nesomyidae

Genus

Cricetomys