Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat

Species of rodent

Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Lophuromys
Species:	L. brunneus
Binomial name
*Lophuromys brunneus* Thomas, 1906^[1]
Synonyms^[2]^[3]
Lophuromys simensis Osgood, 1936 Lophuromys aquilus brunneus Thomas, 1906

Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat (Lophuromys brunneus), also called the brown brush-furred rat^[4] or the brown brush-furred mouse,^[5] is a species of brush-furred mouse^[6] from Southern Ethiopia.^[2]

Description

The holotype had a body 125 millimetres (4.9 in) long and a tail 80 millimetres (3.1 in) long. The body is a pale brown with a pale brown or clay-colored belly.^[3]

Range and habitat

L. brunneus is endemic to the highlands of Southern Ethiopia, from the Semien Mountains to Manno-Jimma.^[2] The type locality is around the Omo River.^[3]

History

It was originally described as a subspecies of Lophuromys aquilus (L. aquilus brunneus) in 1906 by Oldfield Thomas, from a specimen collected 13 May 1905.^[2]^[3] It was reclassified as a subspecies of Lophuromys flavopunctatus in 1936 as a synonym to subspecies L. flavopunctatus zaphiri. In 2002, it was elevated to species status.^[2]

Phylogeny

The species is closely related to the Ethiopian forest brush-furred rat (Lophuromys chrysopus).^[2] It is believed to have interbred with L. flavopunctatus.^[7]

References

^ "Lophuromys brunneus Thomas, 1906". GBIF.org. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Vol. 1. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1204. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Thomas, Oldfield (1906). "New Mammals collected in North-east Africa by Mr. Zahiro, and presented to the British Museum by W. N. McMillan, Esq" (PDF). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 18 (106): 300–306. doi:10.1080/00222930608562614. Retrieved 9 December 2014 – via BioStor.
^ Duff, Andrew; Lawson, Ann (2004). Mammals of the World: A Checklist. United Kingdom: A & C Black. pp. 2–5. ISBN 978-0-300-10398-4. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
^ Wrobel, Murray, ed. (2006). Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-08-048882-0. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
^ Myers, P.; R. Espinosa; C. S. Parr; T. Jones; G. S. Hammond & T. A. Dewey (2014). "Lophuromys brunneus". ADW. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
^ Lavrenchenko, Leonid A.; Verheyen, Erik; Potapov, Sergei G.; Lebedev, Vladimir S.; Bulatova, Nina S.H.; Aniskin, Vladimir M.; Verheyen, Walter N.; Ryskov, Alexey P. (20 October 2004). "Divergent and reticulate processes in evolution of Ethiopian Lophuromys flavopunctatus species complex: evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA differentiation patterns". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 83 (3): 301–316. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00390.x.

External links

Data related to Lophuromys brunneus at Wikispecies

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Extant species of subfamily Deomyinae

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae

Acomys
(Spiny mice)

Western Saharan spiny mouse (A. airensis)
Cairo spiny mouse (A. cahirinus)
Chudeau's spiny mouse (A. chudeaui)
Asia Minor spiny mouse (A. cilicicus)
Gray spiny mouse (A. cineraceus)
Eastern spiny mouse (A. dimidiatus)
Fiery spiny mouse (A. ignitus)
Johan's spiny mouse (A. johannis)
Kemp's spiny mouse (A. kempi)
Louise's spiny mouse (A. louisae)
Crete spiny mouse (A. minous)
Mullah spiny mouse (A. mullah)
Muze spiny mouse (A. muzei)
Cyprus spiny mouse (A. nesiotes)
Nguru spiny mouse (A. ngurui)
Percival's spiny mouse (A. percivali)
Golden spiny mouse (A. russatus)
Selous's Spiny Mouse (A. selousi)
Seurat's spiny mouse (A. seurati)
Southern African spiny mouse (A. spinosissimus)
Cape spiny mouse (A. subspinosus)
Wilson's spiny mouse (A. wilsoni)

Deomys

Link rat (D. ferrugineus)

Lophuromys
(Brush-furred mice)

Subgenus Kivumys: Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat (L. luteogaster); Medium-tailed brush-furred rat (L. medicaudatus); Woosnam's brush-furred rat (L. woosnami)

Subgenus Lophuromys: Angolan brush-furred rat (L. angolensis); Ansorge's brush-furred rat (L. ansorgei); Gray brush-furred rat (L. aquilus); Short-tailed brush-furred rat (L. brevicaudus); Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat (L. brunneus); Mount Chercher brush-furred rat (L. chercherensis); Ethiopian forest brush-furred rat (L. chrysopus); Dieterlen's brush-furred mouse (L. dieterleni); Dudu's brush-furred rat (L. dudui); Eisentraut's brush-furred rat (L. eisentrauti); Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat (L. flavopunctatus); Hutterer's brush-furred mouse (L. huttereri); Kilonzo's brush furred rat (L. kilonzoi); L. laticeps; L. machangui; Makundi's brush-furred rat (L. makundii); L. margarettae; Black-clawed brush-furred rat (L. melanonyx); North Western Rift brush-furred rat (L. menageshae); Fire-bellied brush-furred rat (L. nudicaudus); Sheko Forest brush-furred rat (L. pseudosikapusi); Rahm's brush-furred rat (L. rahmi); L. rita; Mount Cameroon brush-furred rat (L. roseveari); Sabuni's brush-furred rat (L. sabunii); Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat (L. sikapusi); L. simensis; Stanley's brush-furred rat (L. stanleyi); Verhagen's brush-furred rat (L. verhageni); Zena's brush-furred rat (L. zena)