Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran, 1855)
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Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran, 1855) |
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Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran, 1855) View in CoL . Revue Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 2, 7:206.
TYPE LOCALITY: Gabon .
DISTRIBUTION: Tropical forest block from S Nigeria south to N Angola, and east across Zaire (incl. islands of Zaire river between Kisangani and Kinshasa; Colyn and Dudu, 1986) to Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda; isolated forest patches in S Sudan, SW Ethiopia, Kenya and W Tanzania (see section of map east of Ghana in Dieterlen and Rupp, 1976).
SYNONYMS: albiventris, anchietae , bacchante, editus, marungensis, moerens, oris; rufinus ( Matschie, 1895, not Temminck, 1855), talangae, unyori, vallicola.
COMMENTS: Another African species showing appreciable geographic variation in fur color and body size ( Dieterlen and Rupp, 1976; Thomas, 1915). Chromosomal data reported by Matthey (1963, 1967) and Maddalena et al. (1989). Closest phylogenetic relative is probably Thamnomys ( Hatt, 1940a) .
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