Aethomys chrysophilus (de Winton, 1897)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 567

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

DOI

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scientific name

Aethomys chrysophilus (de Winton, 1897)
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Aethomys chrysophilus (de Winton, 1897) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1896:801 [1897].

TYPE LOCALITY: S Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Mazoe .

DISTRIBUTION: From SE Kenya south through Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and E Botswana into South Africa, Namibia, and north into S Angola.

SYNONYMS: alticola , capricornis, fouriei, harei, imago, ineptus , magalakuini, pretoriae, singidae, tongensis, tzaneenensis, voi .

COMMENTS: Data from chromosomes ( Gordon and Rautenbach, 1980; Visser and Robinson, 1986) and spermatozoal morphology ( Gordon and Watson, 1986; Visser and Robinson, 1987) indicated that populations now identified as A. chrysophilus consist of two species: chrysophilus itself and another species not yet identified by scientific name. The segment occuring in southern African subregion reviewed by Skinner and Smithers (1990).

Gordon, D. H., and I. L. Rautenbach. 1980. Species complexes in medically important rodents: Chromosome studies of Aethomys, Tatera, and Saccostomus (Rodentia: Muridae, Cricetidae). South African Journal of Science, 76: 559 - 561.

Gordon, D. H., and C. R. B. Watson. 1986. Identification of cryptic species of rodents (Mastomys, Aethomys, Saccostomus) in the Kruger National Park. South African Journal of Zoology, 21: 95 - 99.

Skinner, J. D., and R. H. N. Smithers. 1990. The mammals of the southern African subregion. Second ed. University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 771 pp.

Visser, D. S., and T. J. Robinson. 1986. Cytosystematics of the South African Aethomys (Rodentia: Muridae). South African Journal of Science, 21: 264 - 268.

Visser, D. S., and T. J. Robinson. 1987. Systematic implications of spermatozoan and bacular morphology for the South African Aethomys. Mammalia, 51: 447 - 454.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Aethomys