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Taterillus lacustris
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Description
Taterillus lacustris (Thomas and Wroughton, 1907). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 19:37.
TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria, Lake Chad (= Kaddai).
DISTRIBUTION: NE Nigeria and Cameroon.
COMMENTS: Rosevear (1969) synonymized this with T. gracilis, but both Robbins (1974, 1977) and Petter (1975b) treated it as a distinct species.
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 563, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Taterillus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas and Wroughton
- Species
- lacustris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Taterillus lacustris (and, 1907) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604.
- Robbins, C. B. 1974. Comments on the taxonomy of the West African Taterillus (Rodentia: Cricetidae) with the description of a new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 87: 395 - 404.
- Robbins, C. B. 1977. A review of the taxonomy of the African gerbils, Taterillus (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Pp. 178 - 194, in Uspekhi sovremennoi teriologii [Advances in modern theriology] (V. E. Sokolov, ed.). Nauka, Moscow, 296 pp. (in Russian).
- Petter, F. 1975 b. Subfamily Gerbillinae. Part 6.3. Pp. 7 - 12, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.