Grammomys caniceps Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1984

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 : 592

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Grammomys caniceps Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1984 View in CoL . Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk., A, 374:12.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Malindi .

DISTRIBUTION: N Kenya and S Somalia.

COMMENTS: Karyotype of Kenyan sample described and discussed by Hutterer and Dieterlen (1984), and chromosomal variation among individuals from S Somalia described and discussed in detail by Roche et al. (1984) who assigned their sample to the dolichurus group, but who also, and independant of Hutterer and Dieterlen (1984), noted the distinctive quality of the Somalian species as indicated by chromosomal evidence.