Praomys derooi Van der Straeten and Verheyen 1978

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 : 1446

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Praomys derooi Van der Straeten and Verheyen 1978
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Praomys derooi Van der Straeten and Verheyen 1978 View in CoL

Praomys derooi Van der Straeten and Verheyen 1978 View in CoL , Z. Saugetierk., 43: 33.

Type Locality: Togo, Borgou, 160 m.

Vernacular Names: Deroo's Praomys.

Distribution: Known only from E and S Ghana, Togo, Benin, and W Nigeria (see Van der Straeten and Verheyen, 1978 b).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Myomys derooi .

Discussion: Part of the murine fauna endemic to West Africa (see account of Grammomys buntingi ). Described as a savanna species found living in and around human dwellings. Grubb et al. (1998) reviewed the Ghana population, and Decher et al. (1997) recorded two animals from the Accra Plains region in SE Ghana, one caught in a house, the other near a house. Phylogenetic relationships of this species are with P. daltoni ; the two are closely similar in pelage coloration and texture (except that underparts are gray in most derooi and white in most daltoni , but we have seen series of USNM P. daltoni ranging from gray to white), external, cranial, and dental morphology (our observations), habitat (see account of P. daltoni ), and variation in mtDNA cytochrome b sequences ( Lecompte et al., 2002 b) and nuclear IRBP gene sequences (E. Lecompte, in litt., 2002). The morphological and molecular resemblances are so close we suspect the samples of derooi simply represent local populations of P. daltoni . Even Van der Straeten’s (1979) canonical analyses of cranial and dental measurements exposed broad overlap between his samples of P. daltoni and P. derooi . Ziegler et al. (2002) discussed an example of P. derooi from C Guinea collected in a village, but the record is so far from the known, well documented range that we suspect it represents a misidentification of P. daltoni .

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Praomys

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Praomys derooi Van der Straeten and Verheyen 1978

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

Praomys derooi

Van der Straeten and Verheyen 1978: 33
1978
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