Parotomys brantsii (A. Smith 1834)

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 : 1531

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Parotomys brantsii (A. Smith 1834)
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[Euryotis] brantsii A. Smith 1834 , South African Quart. J., ser. 2, 2: 150.

Type Locality: South Africa, Northern Cape Province, Little Namaqualand, "toward the mouth of the Orange River." .

Vernacular Names: Brants's Whistling Rat.

Synonyms: Parotomys deserti Roberts 1933 ; Parotomys luteolus ( Thomas and Schwann 1904) ; Parotomys pallida (Wagner 1841) ; Parotomys rufifrons (Rüppell 1842) .

Distribution: Western, Eastern, and Northern Cape provinces, South Africa, to SW Botswana and SE Namibia ( De Graaff, 1981:160).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Although Port Nolloth, purportedly as restricted by Thomas and Schwann (1904:178), is usually cited as the type locality of P. brantsii (e.g., Ellerman et al., 1953; Meester et al., 1986), a careful reading of Thomas and Schwann indicates that they had actually associated one of Smith’s cotypes with a series collected at Klipfontein, a place some 50 miles inland from Port Nolloth. The notion that the type locality was "restricted" to Port Nolloth apparently stems from an inadvertent indication in Roberts (1951). A future revisor of the species should clarify this matter. Meester et al. (1986) recognized deserti and rufifrons as subspecies in addition to the nominate form.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Parotomys

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Parotomys brantsii (A. Smith 1834)

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

[Euryotis] brantsii

A. Smith 1834: 150
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