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Lemniscomys mittendorfi Eisentraut, 1968

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer, 2014, African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon, Zoosystema 36 (3), pp. 647-690 : 668

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.5252/z2014n3a6

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4539474

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scientific name

 Lemniscomys mittendorfi Eisentraut, 1968
status

 

Lemniscomys mittendorfi Eisentraut, 1968 View in CoL

Lemniscomys mittendorfi Eisentraut, 1968: 7 View in CoL .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Cameroon, Mt Oku.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MNHN: 2013-81.

ZFMK: Eisentraut collections 69.259 to 69.262.

ZFMK: Fülling collections: 91.235, 91.236, 2003-882 to 2003-887.

ZFMK: Owl pellets Lake Oku cave 91.94.

Morphological characters

The specimen newly collected were poorly preserved (few external data available, only skulls, no DNA sequencing possible). Their small size of skull, the small HF (21 mm) and the size and shape of the molars fit well with type series specimens housed in ZFMK ( Table 6).

EISENTRAUT M. 1968. - Die tiergeographische Bedeutung des Oku-Gebirges im Bamenda-Banso-Hochland (Westkamerun). Bonner Zoologische Beitrage 19: 170 - 175.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
ZFMK

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Lemniscomys

Specimens