Uranomys Dollman, 1909

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 : 670

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Uranomys Dollman, 1909 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 4:551.

TYPE SPECIES: Uranomys ruddi Dollman, 1909 View in CoL .

COMMENTS: Allen (1939) listed seven species of Uranomys but noted that six of them would probably prove to be subspecies of U. ruddi , which is how the genus is currently treated ( Verheyen, 1964b). In external, cranial, and dental traits, Uranomys is closely related to Acomys ( Hinton, 1921; Misonne, 1969), a phylogenetic alliance also supported by DNA (LINE) sequence analyses ( Pascale et al., 1990), and Lophuromys (our studies; Watts, in litt.; Denys and Michaux, 1992).