Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse 1840
Creators
- 1. Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) and Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) j. decher @ leibniz-zfmk. de
- 2. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH 45804 (USA) ryanwnorris @ gmail. com
- 3. Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc., Monrovia Office: Unit 102, Wazni Building, 13 th Street and Tubman Boulevard, Sinkor, Monrovia (Liberia)
- 4. Wildlife Division, Forestry Commission, P. O. Box M 239, Accra (Ghana)
- 5. Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany)
- 6. Philosophenweg 12, 77654 Offenburg (Germany)
- 7. Department of Biogeography, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, D- 54296 Trier (Germany)
- 8. Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) wkilpatr @ uvm. edu
Description
Cricetomys cf. gambianus Waterhouse, 1840
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Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse, 1840: 2.
COMMON NAME. — Northern Giant Pouched Rat; Ewe: Alegeli.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Shiare • 1 adult ♀; 24.VIII.2001; Tomahawk trap along Sabu creek; SMF 91437.
Apesokubi • 1 subadult ♀; Tomahawk trap; 28.VIII.2001; ZT- NHC 970.
REMARK
The zygomatic width of the Shiare specimen is 48.2% of occipito-nasal length, which is above the range of “ C. emini ”, following Genest-Villard (1967) (D. Kock pers. comm.), a species that is currently labeled Cricetomys sp. 1 from the region including our study area following the molecular and craniometric study by Olayemi et al. (2012). There is a specimen from the Volta Region at the USNM (USNM 436298, as. C. gambianus), a female from Odomi Jongo (1 miles E Nkwanta), caught during the African Mammal Project in 1968.
CONSERVATION STATUS. — Cricetomys gambianus is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SMF
- Event date
- 2001-08-24
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Cricetomys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Waterhouse
- Species
- gambianus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2001-08-24
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse, 1840 sec. Decher, Norris, Abedi-Lartey, Oppong, Hutterer, Weinbrenner, Koch, Podsiadlowski & Kilpatrick, 2021
References
- WATERHOUSE G. R. 1840. - On a new Genus of the Family Muridae and Order Rodentia. Proceeding of the Zoological Society of London 8: 1 - 3.
- OLAYEMI A., NICOLAS V., HULSELMANS J. A. N., MISSOUP A. D., FICHET- CALVET E., AMUNDALA D., DUDU A., DIERCKX T., WEN- DELEN W. I. M., LEIRS H. & VERHEYEN E. 2012. - Taxonomy of the African giant pouched rats (Nesomyidae: Cricetomys): molecular and craniometric evidence support an unexpected high species diversity. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 700 - 719. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.2012.00823. x