Mus tenellus (Thomas, 1903)

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 : 629

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Mus tenellus (Thomas, 1903) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1903(1):298.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan, Blue Nile, Roseires .

DISTRIBUTION: Sudan, S Ethiopia (below 2000 m; Rupp, 1980), S Somalia, and south through Kenya to C Tanzania (Dodoma); limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: aequatorius, delamensis, gerbillus , suahelica.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Nannomys . Reviewed by Petter (1972«) and Yalden et al. (1976). Morphologically and ecologically closely similar to M. haussa (see that account). The southernmost record is based on the holotype of gerbillus ( Allen and Loveridge, 1933) , which is an example of M. tenellus . Yalden et al. (1976) listed gallarum as a synonym of M. tenellus , but the holotype is an example of M. musculoides . Judged by our studies of museum specimens, most published Ethiopian records of M. tenellus are actually M. musculoides .