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Dainty African Fat Mouse
Steatomys cuppedius Thomas & Hinton, 1920
Also calledRat-adipeux élégant (fra) · Souris adipeux gracile (fra) · Zierliche Fettmaus (deu) · nigerianrasvahiiri (fin) · tłustoszka drobna (pol) · Западная толстая мышь (rus) · セネガルカミンマウス (jpn)
First described in: Novit. Zool. vol.27 p.318
The dainty fat mouse (Steatomys cuppedius) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.
It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
COMMENTS: Revised by Swanepoel and Schütter (1978), who regarded cuppedius as a distinct species and not a member of S. parvus, as Coetzee (1977 a) had indicated.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: A W African endemic occurring from Senegal to NC Nigeria and SC Niger (see map in Swanepoel and Schütter, 1978); actual range unresolved.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria, Farniso (= Panisau), near Kano, 1700 ft.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENT: Included in parvus by Coetzee, 1977, Part 6.8: 2; considered a distinct species by Swanepoel and Schütter, 1978, in Schütter, ed., Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 6: 53 - 76.
Order Rodentia (Part 3)
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Description
The dainty fat mouse has a head-and-body length of between 78 and 93 mm (3.1 and 3.7 in) and a tail length of between 41 and 50 mm (1.6 and 2.0 in). It weighs between 14 and 24 g (0.49 and 0.85 oz). It is a light sandy-brown colour and always has eight nipples. It is one of three species of fat mouse occurring in West Africa. It can be distinguished from the northwestern fat mouse (Steatomys caurinus) by being smaller and paler, by having a relatively longer tail, which is always at least half the head-and-body length, and by having fewer nipples. The third species, Jackson's fat mouse (Steatomys jacksoni), does not share the same range, being found only in southern Ghana and southern Nigeria, and has twelve nipples.
Range & habitat
The dainty fat mouse is native to tropical West Africa. Its range extends from Senegal through southern Mali, Burkina Faso, southern Niger, northern Benin and northwestern Nigeria, at altitudes of between 200 and 600 m (700 and 2,000 ft) above sea level. Its typical habitat is somewhat shrubby grassland.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2438740.