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Idiurus macrotis Miller 1898

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Description

Idiurus macrotis Miller, 1898. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 12:73.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Efulen, Cameroon district, West Africa".

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone to E Zaire.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Ghana).

SYNONYMS: cansdalei Hayman, 1946; kivuensis Lönnberg, 1917; langi J. A. Allen, 1922; panga J. A. Allen, 1922.

COMMENTS: Includes kivuensis, originally considered (by Lönnberg) as subspecies of zenkeri, then considered a valid species by Hayman (1946:211); but see Verheyen (1963: 169- 178, 183) who included kivuensis in macrotis and revised this species.

Notes

Published as part of Fritz Dieterlen, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Anomaluridae, pp. 757-758 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 757-758, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359185

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0021FE787113F56416DDF56EF9C3293F

Related works

Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359185 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FC1886007113F5651623FFEDFFE52B18 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/0021FE787113F56416DDF56EF9C3293F (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/205140133 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/194061/taxon/0021FE787113F56416DDF56EF9C3293F.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Anomaluridae
Genus
Idiurus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Miller
Species
macrotis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Idiurus macrotis Miller, 1898 sec. Dieterlen, 1993

References

  • Hayman, R. W. 1946. Systematic notes on the genus Idiurus (Anomaluridae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 11, 13: 208 - 212.
  • Verheyen, W. N. 1963. Contribution a la systematique du genre Idiurus (Rodentia-Anomaluridae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 68: 157 - 197.