Lophuromys (Lophuromys) roseveari W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn, and Hutterer 1997

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1208

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Lophuromys (Lophuromys) roseveari W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn, and Hutterer 1997
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Lophuromys (Lophuromys) roseveari W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn, and Hutterer 1997 View in CoL

Lophuromys (Lophuromys) roseveari W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn, and Hutterer 1997 View in CoL , Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg., Biol., 67: 167.

Type Locality: West Cameroon, Mt Cameroon, Musake, 1850-2200 m (see W. Verheyen et al., 1997, for additional information).

Vernacular Names: Mount Cameroon Brush-furred Rat.

Distribution: Endemic to Mt Cameroon, 1000-3100 m.

Discussion: Subgenus Lophuromys , L. sikapusi-ansorgei species group (W. Verheyen et al., 1997). Rosevear (1969:305) had one example of this species and described it under " Lophuromys sp. " W. Verheyen et al. (1997:172) concluded that L. roseveari is distinct from L. sikapusi inhabiting lowland forests and the other montane forest patches in the montane forest archipelago of the adjacent Nigeria-Cameroon region. They cautioned that "in view of the considerable morphometrical differences also encountered between the studied OTU’s [ Gabon, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, N Cameroon, representing sikapusi ], we expect that the exact systematical position of the Mount Cameroun form will only become clear within a continent-wide revision of the Lophuromys sikapusi-ansorgei complex." Other small mammals also recorded only from montane habitats on Mt Cameroon are the shrews Sylvisorex morio and Crocidura eisentrauti and the otomyine Otomys burtoni (W. Verheyen et al., 1997) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Lophuromys

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Lophuromys (Lophuromys) roseveari W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn, and Hutterer 1997

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Lophuromys (Lophuromys) roseveari

W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn, and Hutterer 1997: 167
1997
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