Acomys (Acomys) russatus Wagner 1840

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 : 1199

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Acomys (Acomys) russatus Wagner 1840
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Acomys (Acomys) russatus Wagner 1840 View in CoL

Acomys (Acomys) russatus Wagner 1840 View in CoL , Abh. Akad. Wiss. Munchen, 3: 195.

Type Locality: Egypt, Sinai.

Vernacular Names: Golden Spiny Mouse.

Synonyms: Acomys (Acomys) aegyptiacus Bonhote 1912 ; Acomys (Acomys) affinis Gray 1843 ; Acomys (Acomys) harrisoni Atallah 1970 ; Acomys (Acomys) lewisi Atallah 1967 .

Distribution: Egypt east of the Nile ( Osborn and Helmy, 1980), S and E Sinai ( Haim and Tchernov, 1974; Nevo, 1989; Saleh and Basuony, 1998), Jordan, Israel ( Mendelssohn and Yom-Tov, 1999), Saudi Arabia, N Yemen ( Al-Jumaily, 1998), and Oman ( Harrison and Bates, 1991); see Bates (1994).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Acomys . Qumsiyeh et al. (1986) retained lewisi as a species because fur color and bacular morphology of lewisi are distinctive compared with A. russatus ( Atallah, 1967) , even though the karyotype of lewisi from Jordan is indistinguishable from A. russatus . However, based on morphological evidence, lewisi was included in A. russatus by other systematists ( Corbet, 1978 c; Harrison and Bates, 1991; Osborn and Helmy, 1980), an allocation also supported by genetic data ( Janecek et al., 1991). See Nevo (1985, 1989, and references therein) for additional chromosomal data and its significance.

Among species of Acomys , A. russatus is very distinctive in its molar morphology ( Denys et al., 1994) and chromosomal traits (2n = 66), an isolation bolstered by phylogenetic analysis of mtDNA cytochrome b sequences, which does not associate it closely with any other single species or any species in the A. cahirinus-A. dimidiatus group ( Barome et al., 2000, 2001 a, b). Acomys russatus and A. dimidiatus are sympatric in Israel and Arabia, and their similarities and differences in ecology, physiology, and activity patterns where they coexist in Israel have been extensively documented (see references in Nevo, 1989).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Acomys

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Acomys (Acomys) russatus Wagner 1840

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
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Acomys (Acomys) russatus

Wagner 1840: 195
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