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East African Praomys
Praomys delectorum (Thomas, 1910)
Also calledPraomys délicat (fra) · Zierliche Weichhaarratte (deu)
First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8 vol.6 p.430
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Of the synonyms belonging here, taitae was described as a species (Heller, 1912) and recognized as such by Hollister (1919) and Swynnerton and Hayman (1951), melanotus was described as a form of P. tullbergi (G. M. Allen and Loveridge, 1933), and octomastis was presented as a subspecies of P. jacksoni (Hatt, 1940 b). Demeter and Hutterer (1986) suggested that taitae is synonymous with Hylomyscus denniae, but it is not, judging from our study of specimens and relevant holotypes. Van der Straeten and Kerbis Peterhans (1999) recognized melanotus, octomastis, and taitae as valid species in the P. delectorum complex, but presented no substantiating evidence defining their morphological and distributional limits. A sample of taitae had 2 n = 48 (Matthey, 1965 a). Distribution in the Eastern Arc Mtns of Tanzania discussed by Stanley et al. (1998) and on slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro by Grimshaw et al. (1995).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: High plateaus and isolated mountains from NE Zambia (Nyika Plateau, Makutus, and Mafingas; Ansell, 1978) and Malawi (Nyika Plateau; Ansell and Dowsett, 1988), through Tanzania (Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951) to SE Kenya (Hollister, 1919).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: Of the synonyms belonging here, taitae was described as a species (Heller, 1912) and recognized as such by Hollister (1919) and Swynnerton and Hayman (1951), melanotus was described as a form of P. tullbergi (Allen and Loveridge, 1933), and octomastis was presented as a subspecies of P. jacksoni (Hatt, 1940 b). Demeter and Hutterer (1986) suggested that taitae was synonymous with Hylomyscus denniae, but it is not, judging from our study of specimens and holotypes.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: High plateaus and isolated mountains from NE Zambia (Nyika Plateau, Makutus, and Mafingas; see map in Ansell, 1978) and Malawi (see map in Ansell and Dowsett, 1988), through Tanzania to SE Kenya.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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Every page naming Praomys delectorum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2438472.