Aethomys namaquensis (A. Smith, 1834)

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 : 568

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Aethomys namaquensis (A. Smith, 1834)
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Aethomys namaquensis (A. Smith, 1834) View in CoL . S. Afr. Quart. J., 2:160.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Namaqualand, Cape of Good Hope .

DISTRIBUTION: S Angola, South Africa (except parts of Cape Prov., coastal Natal, and Namib Desert), Botswana, Zimbabwe, S and C Mozambique, S Malawi, and SE Zambia (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:278).

SYNONYMS: arborarius ( Peters, 1852, not True, 1892), auricomis , avarillus , avunculus, calarius, capensis , centralis , drakensbergi, epupae, grahami , klaverensis, lechochloides, lehocla , longicaudatus , monticularis , namibensis, phippsi, siccatus, waterbergensis.

COMMENTS: Significance of the appreciable variation in body size and pelage coloration among geographic samples needs to be assessed by systematic revision to determine whether that variation reflects one or more species. Reviewed by Meester et al. (1986) and Skinner and Smithers (1990).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Aethomys

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Aethomys namaquensis (A. Smith, 1834)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton 1993
1993
Loc

Aethomys namaquensis (A. Smith, 1834)

A. Smith 1834: 160
1834
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