Mus setulosus Peters 1876
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Mus
Mus setulosus

description: <i>Mus setulosus</i> Peters, 1876. Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 480. TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon, Victoria. DISTRIBUTION: From Guinea (Mt Nimba) and Sierra Leone eastward through Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, N Zaire (Haut-Zaïre), S Sudan, WC and S Ethiopia to N Uganda and W Kenya (documented by Rosevear, 1969; Petter and Genest, 1970; and our study of samples in the American Museum of Natural History, British Museum, Field Museum of Natural History, and National Museum of Natural History). SYNONYMS: <i>pasha, proconodon.</i> COMMENTS: Subgenus <i>Nannomys.</i> A distinct species sometimes confused with <i>M. musculoides,</i> which occurs over approximately the same region (Rosevear, 1969). Both <i>pasha</i> (Thomas, 1910a) and <i>proconodon</i> (Rhoads, 1896) were originally described as species. Osgood (1936) associated <i>pasha</i> with <i>M. proconodon,</i> and we agree with his identification. Petter and Matthey (1975) regarded <i>pasha</i> as a species, noting that it might be referable to <i>M. setulosus.</i> Both Osgood (1936) and Yalden et al. (1976) recognized <i>proconodon</i> as a distinct species endemic to Ethiopia. Our study of Osgood's specimens, some of which are near-topotypes, revealed that their morphological traits fell within the range of variation typical of <i>M. selulosus.</i> Our identification was forshadowed by Petter and Matthey (1975) who cited the range of <i>M. selulosus</i> to include Ethiopia, based on a letter from J. Prevost. Chromosomal data for samples from W Africa were documented by Jotterand (1972), Jotterand-Bellomo (1981, 1986), and Matthey (1964).
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 627, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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