Acomys wilsoni Thomas 1892
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Acomys
Acomys wilsoni

description: <i>Acomys wilsoni</i> Thomas, 1892. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 10:22. TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Mombasa. DISTRIBUTION: S Sudan, S Ethiopia, S Somalia, Kenya, and south to EC Tanzania (Kondoa; specimens in the American Museum of Natural History); limits unknown. SYNONYMS: <i>ablutus, argillaceus, boronei, enid, nubilus.</i> COMMENTS: Subgenus <i>Acomys.</i> Formerly included in <i>subspinosus</i> by Setzer (1975) but considered a species by Hollister (1919), Ellerman (1941), Matthey (1968), Yalden et al. (1976), Rupp (1980), Petter and Roche (1981), Petter (1983), and Corbet and Hill (1991). Genically most similar to <i>A. percivali</i> (Janecek et al., 1991). Specimens of <i>nubilus</i> are larger and longer-tailed than <i>wilsoni</i> and may represent a separate species; de Beaux's (1934) description of <i>boronei</i> recalls <i>nubilus.</i>
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 567, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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