Steatomys cuppedius Thomas and Hinton 1920
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Steatomys cuppedius Thomas and Hinton 1920
Steatomys cuppedius Thomas and Hinton 1920 , Novit. Zool., 27: 318.
Type Locality: Nigeria, Farniso (= Panisau), near Kano, 1700 ft (518 m).
Vernacular Names: Dainty African Fat Mouse.
Distribution: West Africa, in Senegal ( Duplantier and Granjon, 1992), NC Nigeria, and SC Niger; range unresolved.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).
Discussion: Revised by Swanepoel and Schlitter (1978), who regarded cuppedius as a distinct species, as did Rosevear (1969), not a member of S. parvus as per Coetzee (1977 a). Thomas and Hinton (1923 a) thought the holotype of aquilo from EC Sudan was related to S. cuppedius . Whether West African cuppedius represents a separate species or segment of the widely ranging S. parvus has yet to be resolved. Specimens identified as S. cuppedius from SE Ghana by Yeboah (1982 -1988) are examples of Uranomys ruddi ( Grubb et al., 1998:189) .
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