Myomys ruppi
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Description
Myomys ruppi (Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1983). Annis. Mus. R. Afr. C., 237:121.
TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Bonke, north of Bulta, 2800-3200 m.
DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia; known only from Bonke and Bulta in the Gamo Gofa region of SW Ethiopia, 2700-3200 m.
COMMENTS: Originally described as a species of Praomys (see Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1983) based on material collected by Rupp (1980), who illustrated the skull as " Praomys albipes, stenocephaler Typ" (p. 92). M. ruppi combines morphological features of both M. albipes and Stenocephalemys, an observation reinforced by morphometric analyses (Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1983). Were it not for the long tail of M. ruppi (a trait shared with M. albipes), the species could as easily be included within Stenocephalemys.
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Myomys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Van der Straeten and Dieterlen
- Species
- ruppi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myomys ruppi (Straeten and, 1983) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Van der Straeten, E., and F. Dieterlen. 1983. Description de Praomys ruppi, une nouvelle espece de Muridae d'Ethiopie. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren-Belgique, ser. 8 (Sciences Zoologiques), 237: 121 - 128.
- Rupp, H. 1980. Beitrage zur Systematik, Verbreitung und Okologie athiopischer Nagetiere. Ergebnisse mehrerer Forschungsreisen. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 28 (2): 81 - 123.