Graphiurus (Claviglis) crassicaudatus Jentink 1888

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Gliridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 819-840 : 823

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Graphiurus (Claviglis) crassicaudatus Jentink 1888
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Graphiurus (Claviglis) crassicaudatus Jentink 1888 View in CoL

Graphiurus (Claviglis) crassicaudatus Jentink 1888 View in CoL , Notes Leyden Mus., 10: 41.

Type Locality: Liberia, Du (Du Queah) River, Hill Town .

Vernacular Names: Thick-tailed African Dormouse.

Synonyms: Graphiurus (Claviglis) dorotheae Dollman 1912 .

Distribution: West Africa: Liberia ( Kuhn, 1965), Côte d’Ivoire (in Mt Nimba reserve; see Heim de Balsac and Lamotte, 1958), Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon ( Robbins and Schlitter, 1981; Schlitter et al., 1985), Gabon, and perhaps Bioko ( Eisentraut, 1973). See Rosevear (1969) and Grubb et al. (1998).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Claviglis . Some researchers hypothesized that the morphological similarity between G. crassicaudatus and G. nagtglasii indicates a close phylogenetic relationship between the two species ( Holden, 1996 b; Rosevear, 1969). Results of Pavlinov and E. G. Potapova’s (2003) cladistic analysis of African dormice based on cranial and middle ear characters does not support this conclusion; they showed that characters shared by G. crassicaudatus and G. nagtglasii may be primitive for the genus, and that G. crassicaudatus shares several derived characters with other species of Graphiurus . Additionally, G. nagtglasii and G. crassicaudatus each exhibit a suite of autapomorphies. Reviewed by Rossolimo et al. (2001) and Holden (In Press).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Gliridae

Genus

Graphiurus

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Graphiurus (Claviglis) crassicaudatus Jentink 1888

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
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Graphiurus (Claviglis) crassicaudatus

Jentink 1888: 41
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