Kipanya-miti

**Vipanya-miti** ni wanyama wadogo wa nusufamilia Dendromurinae katika familia Nesomyidae ambao wanafanana na vipanya, lakini vipanya ni wanafamilia wa Muridae. Spishi zote zinatokea Afrika kusini kwa Sahara. Jenasi *Dendromus* na *Steatomys* zina usambazaji mkubwa katika Afrika, lakini jenasi nyingine ni dogo na zina sambazaji zilizozuiliwa. Nasaba za jenasi za vipanya-miti bado haina hakika. K.m. *Dendromus* na *Steatomys* zina mnasaba mbali kiasi. *Leimacomys* imepewa juzi nusufamilia yake Leimacomyinae.

Kama jina lao linaashiria vipanya-miti wanaweza kupanda miti sana na spishi nyingi huishi mitini takriban saa zote, isipokuwa spishi za *Steatomys* (vipanya wanono) ambazo huishi ardhini hasa. Wanyama hawa ni wadogo sana, isipokuwa Kipanya-miti Mkubwa. Rangi yao ni kijivu hadi kahawia na nyeupe chini. Wana mkia mrefu, lakini mkia wa vipanya wanono si sana.

## Spishi
* *Dendromus insignis*, Kipanya-miti milima (Remarkable Climbing Mouse)
* *Dendromus kahuziensis*, Kipanya-miti wa Mlima Kahuzi (Mount Kahuzi Climbing Mouse)
* *Dendromus leucostomus*, Kipanya-miti wa Monard (Monard's African Climbing Mouse)
* *Dendromus lovati*, Kipanya-miti wa Lovat (Lovat's Climbing Mouse)
* *Dendromus melanotis*, Kipanya-miti masikio-meusi (Grey Climbing Mouse)
* *Dendromus mesomelas*, Kipanya-miti wa Brant (Brant's Climbing Mouse)
* *Dendromus messorius*, Kipanya-miti migomba (Banana Climbing Mouse)
* *Dendromus mystacalis*, Kipanya-miti kahawiachekundu (Chestnut Climbing Mouse)
* *Dendromus nyasae*, Kipanya-miti wa Kivu Kivu Climbing Mouse)
* *Dendromus nyikae*, Kipanya-miti misitu (Nyika Climbing Mouse)
* *Dendromus oreas*, Kipanya-miti wa Kameruni (Cameroon Climbing Mouse)
* *Dendromus ruppi*, Kipanya-miti wa Rupp (Rupp's climbing mouse)
* *Dendromus vernayi*, Kipanya-miti wa Vernay (Vernay's Climbing Mouse)
* *Megadendromus nikolausi*, Kipanya-miti Mkubwa (Nikolaus's mouse)
* *Dendroprionomys rousseloti*, Kipanya-miti Mahameli (Velvet climbing mouse)
* *Leimacomys buettneri*, Kipanya-miti wa Togo (Togo mouse)
* *Prionomys batesi*, Kipanya-miti wa Dollman (Dollman's climbing mouse)
* *Malacothrix typica*, Kipanya-jangwa masikio-marefu Gerbil Mouse au Long-eared mouse)
* *Steatomys bocagei*, Kipanya Mnono wa Bocage (Bocage's African Fat Mouse)
* *Steatomys caurinus*, Kipanya Mnono Magharibi (Northwestern Fat Mouse)
* *Steatomys cuppedius*, Kipanya Mnono Mdogo (Dainty Fat Mouse)
* *Steatomys jacksoni*, Kipanya Mnono wa Jackson (Jackson's Fat Mouse)
* *Steatomys krebsii*, Kipanya Mnono wa Krebs (Krebs's Fat Mouse)
* *Steatomys opimus*, Kipanya Mnono wa Pousargues (Pousargues's African Fat Mouse)
* *Steatomys parvus*, Kipanya Mnono Kibete (Tiny Fat Mouse)
* *Steatomys pratensis*, Kipanya Mnono Nyika (Fat Mouse)

## Marejeo
*Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals. Academic Press Limited, London.
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 *in* Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
*Steppan, S. J., R. A. Adkins, and J. Anderson. 2004. Phylogeny and divergence date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes. Systematic Biology, 53:533-553.

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