East African Pouched Mouse
Saccostomus mearnsi Heller, 1910
Also calledOstafrika-Kurzschwanzhamsterratte (deu) · Rat à abajoues de Mearns (fra) · Saccostome de Mearns (fra) · itäafrikanhamstraajahiiri (fin) · krysa Mearnsova (ces) · torbomysz kenijska (pol) · Хомяк Мирнса (rus) · キタチビオホオブクロネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Smithson. Misc. Coll. vol.54 p.3
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Perhaps also a species complex as suggested by newly reported karyotypic, cranial, and genetic variation (Corti et al., 2004; Fadda et al., 2001 b).
Order Rodentia - Family Nesomyidae
distribution
Distribution: Extreme S Ethiopia and S Somalia, through E Uganda and Kenya, to NE Tanzania.
Order Rodentia - Family Nesomyidae
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Extreme S Ethiopia and S Somalia, through E Uganda and Kenya, to NE Tanzania.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENT: Formerly included in campestris by Misonne, 1974, Part 6: 14. Includes cricetulus, isiolae, and umbriventer; see Hubert, 1978, in Schlitter, ed., Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 6: 48 - 52.
Order Rodentia (Part 3)
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2438949.