Graphiurus Smuts, 1832

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 : 676

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https://doi.org/10.5252/z2014n3a6

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scientific name

Graphiurus Smuts, 1832
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Genus Graphiurus Smuts, 1832 View in CoL

Two representatives of African dormice family have already been collected in the CVL by Eisentraut (1970, 1973): G. lorraineus Dollman, 1910 and G. crassicaudatus Jentink, 1888 . They differ by relative size, G. crassicaudatus being the largest one.

EISENTRAUT M. 1970. - Die Verbreitung der Muriden- Gattung Praomys auf Fernando-Po und in Westkamerun. Zeitschrift fur Zaugetierkunde 35: 1 - 15.

EISENTRAUT M. 1973. - Die Wirbeltierfauna von Fernando Poo und Westkamerun. Bonner Zoologische Monographien 3: 1 - 428.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Gliridae

Genus

Graphiurus