Mount Kenya Grammomys
Grammomys gigas (Dollman, 1911)
Also calledGrammomys géant (fra) · Mount-Kenya-Akazienmaus (deu)
First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8 vol.7 p.527
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Recorded only by the holotype. Recognized as a species in most lists (G. M. Allen, 1939; Ellerman, 1941). Hutterer and Dieterlen (1984) insisted the species has to be recognized because of its large teeth, an opinion we share derived from our study of the holotype; but the possibility that it is simply a large individual of G. ibeanus is a hypothesis worth testing.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: Recorded only by the holotype. Recognized as a species in most lists (Allen, 1939; Ellerman, 1941). Hutterer and Dieterlen (1984) insisted the species has to be recognized because of its large teeth, an opinion we share based on our study of the holotype; but the possibility that it may simply be a large individual of G. ibeanus is a hypothesis that deserves testing.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
activity
Activity patterns. Mount Kenya Thicket Rats are presumably nocturnal and arboreal.
Muridae
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Muridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Grammomys gigas in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2439205.