Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran 1855)

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 : 1428

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11335225

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scientific name

Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran 1855)
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Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran 1855) View in CoL

[Mus] hypoxanthus Pucheran 1855 View in CoL , Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 2, 7: 206.

Type Locality: Gabon.

Vernacular Names: Common Oenomys.

Synonyms: Oenomys albiventris Eisentraut 1968 ; Oenomys anchietae (Bocage 1890) ; Oenomys bacchante ( Thomas 1903) ; Oenomys editus Thomas and Wroughton 1910 ; Oenomys marungensis ( Noack 1887) ; Oenomys moerens Thomas 1911 ; Oenomys oris Thomas 1911 ; Oenomys rufinus ( Matschie 1895) ; Oenomys talangae Setzer 1956 ; Oenomys unyori ( Thomas 1903) ; Oenomys vallicola Heller 1914 .

Distribution: Tropical forest block from S Nigeria south to W and NE Angola ( Crawford-Cabral, 1998), and east across Dem. Rep. Congo (incl. islands of Zaire River between Kisangani and Kinshasa; Colyn and Dudu, 1986) to Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda; also isolated forest patches in S Sudan, SW Ethiopia ( Yalden et al., 1996), Kenya and W Tanzania (see section of map east of Ghana in Dieterlen and Rupp, 1976).

Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient.

Discussion: Another African species showing appreciable geographic variation in fur color and body size ( Dieterlen and Rupp, 1976; Rosevear, 1969; Thomas, 1915). Chromosomal data reported by Matthey (1963, 1967 a) and Maddalena et al. (1989). Palatal ridges of sample from Mount Oku described and contrasted with Lamottemys okuensis (Fülling, 1992). Altitudinal distribution on Ugandan slopes of Ruwenzori Mtns reviewed by Kerbis Peterhans et al. (1998).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Oenomys

Loc

Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran 1855)

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

[Mus] hypoxanthus

Pucheran 1855: 206
1855
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