Grammomys rutilons
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Grammomys
Grammomys rutilons

description: <i>Grammomys rutilons</i> (Peters, 1876). Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 478. TYPE LOCALITY: Gabon, Limbareni. DISTRIBUTION: Tropical rain forest block and outlying patches: from Guinea (Mt Nimba) eastward through Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, S Nigeria to Central African Republic and Zaire, then south through Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon to N Angola. Also found on Bioko (= Fernando Poo) and in forest patches in W Uganda. SYNONYMS: <i>centralis, kuru, poensis.</i> COMMENTS: Usually considered a member of <i>Thamnomys</i> (Allen, 1939; Ellerman, 1941; Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1984), but external, cranial, and dental morphology is more similar to that characterizing species of <i>Grammomys</i> (where it was listed by D. H. S. Davis, 1965, and Misonne, 1974), and we include it within <i>Grammomys</i> pending critical systematic evaluation of samples now identified as <i>rutilans.</i> The form <i>kuru,</i> treated here and by D. H. S. Davis (1965) as a synonym of G. <i>rutilans,</i> is sometimes listed as a species (e.g., Ellerman, 1941), but with provisions (Hatt, 1940a; Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1984; Thomas, 1915); our study of the holotype revealed it is a very young adult <i>rutilans.</i> Tranier and Dosso (1979) reported 2N=36 for an individual captured in Ivory Coast; this contrasts with 2N=50 usually recorded for G. <i>rutilans</i> (Matthey, 1963) and either signals exceptional chromosomal variation within <i>rutilans</i> or the presence of a morphologically undetected species.
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 594, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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