Glover Allen's dasymys

Species of rodent

Glover Allen's dasymys
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Dasymys
Species:
D. alleni
Binomial name
Dasymys alleni
Lawrence and Loveridge, 1953[1]

Glover Allen's dasymys (Glover Allen's shaggy rat or Dasymys alleni) is a species of shaggy marsh rat described in 1953, and indigenous to Mount Rungwe in south-western Tanzania.[2] Contemporary studies of the taxonomy diverge, with the International Union for Conservation of Nature recognising D. alleni as a subspecies of the more widespread D. incomtus, whereas Wilson and Reeder observe the reinstatement of the species as unique in Mammal Species of the World.[3] In their recent analysis, Verheyen et al. describe the distribution of D. alleni as encompassing the Eastern Arc Mountains and the mountainous, volcanic regions around Lake Tanganyika, and potentially the Marungu highlands, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Lawrence, Barbara; Loveridge, Arthur (1953). "Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. I. Mammals from Nyasaland and Tete, with notes on the Genus Otomys". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (110): 1–80.
  2. ^ Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. (16 November 2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. JHU Press. p. 1315. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  3. ^ Taylor, Peter J. (2008). "Dasymys incomtus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 18 September 2012.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help)
  4. ^ Verheyen, Walter N.; Hulselmans, Jan L. J.; Dierckx, Theo; Colyn, Marc; Leirs, Herwig; Verheyen, Erik (2003). "A craniometric and genetic approach to the systematics of the genus Dasymys Peters, 1875, selection of a neotype and description of three new taxa (Rodentia, Muridae, Africa)". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (73): 27–71.

Bibliography

  • Happold, Meri; Happold, David C. D. (eds.). The Mammals of Africa. In press. Amsterdam: Academic Press.
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Colomys–Golunda)
Colomys
Division
Colomys
  • African wading rat (C. goslingi)
Nilopegamys
  • Ethiopian amphibious rat (N. plumbeus)
Zelotomys
(Stink mice)
  • Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse (Z. hildegardeae)
  • Woosnam's broad-headed mouse (Z. woosnami)
Crunomys
Division
Crunomys
  • Celebes shrew-rat (C. celebensis)
  • Northern Luzon shrew-rat (C. fallax)
  • Mindanao shrew-rat (C. melanius)
  • Katanglad shrew-mouse (C. suncoides)
Sommeromys
  • Sommer's Sulawesi rat (S. macrorhinos)
Dacnomys
Division
Anonymomys
  • Mindoro climbing rat (A. mindorensis)
Chiromyscus
  • Fea's tree rat (C. chiropus)
Dacnomys
  • Millard's rat (D. millardi)
Leopoldamys
(Long-tailed
giant rats)
  • Sundaic mountain leopoldamys (L. ciliatus)
  • Diwangkara's long-tailed giant rat (L. diwangkarai)
  • Edwards's long-tailed giant rat (L. edwardsi)
  • Millet's leopoldamys (L. milleti)
  • Neill's long-tailed giant rat (L. neilli)
  • Long-tailed giant rat (L. sabanus)
  • Mentawai long-tailed giant rat (L. siporanus)
Niviventer
(White-bellied rats)
  • Anderson's white-bellied rat (N. andersoni)
  • Brahma white-bellied rat (N. brahma)
  • Cameron Highlands white-bellied rat (N. cameroni)
  • Chinese white-bellied rat (N. confucianus)
  • Coxing's white-bellied rat (N. coninga)
  • Dark-tailed tree rat (N. cremoriventer)
  • Oldfield white-bellied rat (N. culturatus)
  • Smoke-bellied rat (N. eha)
  • Large white-bellied rat (N. excelsior)
  • Montane Sumatran white-bellied rat (N. fraternus)
  • Chestnut white-bellied rat (N. fulvescens)
  • Limestone rat (N. hinpoon)
  • Lang Bian white-bellied rat (N. langbianis)
  • Narrow-tailed white-bellied rat (N. lepturus)
  • Hainan white-bellied rat (N. lotipes)
  • White-bellied rat (N. niviventer)
  • Long-tailed mountain rat (N. rapit)
  • Tenasserim white-bellied rat (N. tenaster)
Saxatilomys
  • Paulina's limestone rat (S. paulinae)
Srilankamys
  • Ohiya rat (S. ohiensis)
Tonkinomys
  • Daovantien's limestone rat (T. daovantieni)
Dasymys
Division
Dasymys
(Shaggy
swamp rats)
  • Glover Allen's dasymys (D. alleni)
  • Crawford-Cabral's shaggy rat (D. cabrali)
  • Fox's shaggy rat (D. foxi)
  • African marsh rat (D. incomtus)
  • Montane shaggy rat (D. montanus)
  • Angolan marsh rat (D. nudipes)
  • Robert's shaggy rat (D. robertsii)
  • West African shaggy rat (D. rufulus)
  • Rwandan shaggy rat (D. rwandae)
  • D. shortridgei
  • Tanzanian shaggy rat (D. sua)
Echiothrix
Division
Echiothrix
  • Central Sulawesi echiothrix (E. centrosa)
  • Northern Sulawesi echiothrix (E. leucura)
Golunda
Division
Golunda
  • Indian bush rat (G. ellioti)
See also
Aethomys–Chrotomys
Hadromys–Maxomys
Melasmothrix–Mus
Oenomys–Pithecheir
Pogonomys–Pseudomys
Rattus
Stenocephalomys–Xeromys
Otomys
Others
Taxon identifiers
Dasymys alleni