Acomys I. Geoffroy 1838
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Acomys

description: <i>Acomys</i> I. Geoffroy, 1838. Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. (Paris), ser. 2, 10: 126. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Mus cahirinus</i> Desmarest, 1819. SYNONYMS: <i>Acanthomys, Peracomys.</i> COMMENTS: Except for a brief list of species and subspecies made by Setzer (1975), the partial reviews by Matthey (1965a, <i>b,</i> 1968) based on chromosomal data, by Petter (1983) using morphology, by Janecek et al. (1991) that incorporated genic data, and the regional systematic revision by Dippenaar and Rautenbach (1986), no systematic revision of <i>Acomys</i> is available. Even the inclusion of <i>Acomys</i> within Murinae is questioned. Morphological evidence has been used to support a close relationship to <i>Mus</i> (see Jacobs, 1978) and <i>Uranomys</i> (see Hinton, 1921; Misonne, 1969), but reproductive biology of <i>Acomys</i> is special among murines (Dieterlen, 1961, 1962, 1963), and biochemical data suggested <i>Acomys</i> is not closely related to <i>Mus</i> but to <i>Uranomys,</i> and is either distantly related to murines or not even a member of the subfamily (Bonhomme et al., 1985; Pascale et al., 1990; Sarich, 1985; Wilson et al., 1987). Dental evidence links <i>Acomys, Uranomys,</i> and <i>Lophuromys</i> to the exclusion of all other extant African muroids (Denys and Michaux, 1992). According to Denys (1990), <i>Acomys</i> is at least 4.5 million years old and not recently evolved, and careful comparisons between <i>Acomys</i> and primitive murines as well as muroids in general are necessary to determine phylogenetic position of genus. Extant species are sorted into two subgenera <i>(Acomys</i> and <i>Peracomys),</i> but these groupings require reassesment by systematic revision of genus. Chromosomal data were summarized by Volobouev et al. (1991) and Sokolov et al. (1992).
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 pages 564-565, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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