Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat

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Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat
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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]

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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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Lophuromys brunneus Thomas, 1906". GBIF.org . Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
  3. 1 2 3 4 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Wrobel, Murray, ed. (2006). Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 259. ISBN   978-0-08-048882-0 . Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  6. ↑ Myers, P.; R. Espinosa; C. S. Parr; T. Jones; G. S. Hammond & T. A. Dewey (2014). "Lophuromys brunneus". ADW . Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  7. ↑ 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 .
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