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Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat

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Species of rodent

Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Lophuromys
Species: L. brunneus
Binomial name
Lophuromys brunneus
Thomas, 1906
Synonyms
  • Lophuromys simensis Osgood, 1936
  • Lophuromys aquilus brunneus Thomas, 1906

Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat (Lophuromys brunneus), also called the brown brush-furred rat or the brown brush-furred mouse, is a species of brush-furred mouse from Southern Ethiopia.

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.

Range and habitat

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

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. 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.

Phylogeny

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

References

  1. "Lophuromys brunneus Thomas, 1906". GBIF.org. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  2. ^ 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. ^ 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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Taxon identifiers
Lophuromys brunneus
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