Graphiurus murinus
Creators: name: Holden, Mary Ellen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Myoxidae
Graphiurus
Graphiurus murinus

description: <i>Graphiurus murinus</i> (Desmarest, 1822). Mammalogie, <i>in</i> Encyclop. Méth., 2(Suppl.):542. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope. DISTRIBUTION: Sudan (Setzer, 1956), Uganda (Delany, 1975), Ethiopia (Corbet and Yalden, 1972; Yalden et al., 1976), Kenya (Hollister, 1919), Tanzania (Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951), Malawi (Ansell and Dowsett, 1988; Ansell, 1989b), Mozambique (Smithers and Tello, 1976), E Zaire (Rahm and Christiaensen, 1963), S Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Smithers and Wilson, 1979), Botswana (Smithers, 1971), E and N Namibia, southern Africa (de Graaff, 1981; Roberts, 1951; Skinner and Smithers, 1990). SYNONYMS: <i>alticola, butteri, cineraceus, cinerascens, dasilvai, erythrobronchus, etoschae, griselda, isolatus, lalandianus, littoralis, marrensis, pretoriae, raptor, saturatus, schneideri, selindensis, soleatus, streeteri, sudanensis, tzaneenensis, vandami, vulcanicus, woosnami, zuluensis</i> (see Allen, 1939, and Setzer, 1956, for citations). COMMENTS: The synonyms (and therefore the distribution) listed here for G. <i>murinus</i> almost certainly contain names which are actually synonyms of G. <i>microtis</i> and other species, but pending systematic revision they cannot be confidently separated here, and are kept in their traditional listing under <i>murinus.</i> Meester et al. (1986) broke <i>murinus</i> into three subspecies: <i>murinus, microtis</i> and <i>griselda.</i> Though <i>microtis</i> is considered a valid species here and in Ansell (1989a, <i>b)</i> and Ansell and Dowsett (1988), the allocation of synonyms listed under this name in Meester et al. (1986) has yet to be documented. Three different karyotypes were found in the <i>G. murinus</i> group in southern Africa (Dippenaar et al., 1983), providing another indication of the complexity of the relationships of named forms traditionally placed in this species.
description: Published as part of <i>Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Myoxidae, pp. 763-770 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 764, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353102
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