Otomys irroratus Brants, 1827

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 445

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353031

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7207007

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scientific name

Otomys irroratus Brants, 1827
status

 

Otomys irroratus Brants, 1827 . Het. Gesl. Muiz., p. 94.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Town Dist., Constantia .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa to Kenya and Cameroun.

COMMENT: Includes tropicalis; see Delany, 1975, The Rodents of Uganda, Br. Mus. Nat. Hist., 764:1-165, who also included typus in this species. Misonne, 1974, Part 6:33, and Ansell, 1978:78, considered typus a distinct species.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008111003001.

Ansell, W. F. H. 1978. The mammals of Zambia. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Chilanga, 126 pp.

Delany, M. J. 1975. The rodents of Uganda. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 165 pp.

Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Otomys