Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat

Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Deomyinae
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][5] or the Brown brush-furred mouse,[6] is a species of brush-furred mouse[7] 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.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Lophuromys brunneus Thomas, 1906". GBIF.org. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 1. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1204. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Thomas, Oldfield (1906). "New Mammals collected in North-east Africa by Mr. Zahiro, and presented to the British Museum by W. N. McMillan, Esq.". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Taylor & Francis) 18: 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. p. 2-5. ISBN 0-300-10398-0. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Spiny Mice and Brush-furred Rats". Macroevolution.net. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  6. ↑ Wrobel, Murray, ed. (2006). Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-08-048882-0. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey (2014). "Lophuromys brunneus". ADW. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  8. ↑ Lavrenchenko, Leonid A.; Verheyen, Erik; Potapov, Sergei G.; Lebedev, Vladimir S.; Bulatova, Nina SH.; 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 (Linnean Society of London) 83 (3): 301–316. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00390.x. Retrieved 9 December 2014.

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