Kivu Giant Pouched Rat
Cricetomys kivuensis Lönnberg, 1917
Also calledCricétome du Kivu (fra) · Kivu-Riesenhamsterratte (deu)
First described in: Kungl. Svenska Vet-Akad. Handl., Stockholm vol.58 art. 2 p.75
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Although Genest-Villard (1967) retained kivuensis as a subspecies of C. emini, she considered its differentiation as marginal. Compared with C. emini, examples of kivuensis are larger, their skulls fully as robust as the biggest C. ansorgei; dorsal color is fuscous gray (not the bright browns of emini) and the underparts are dull grayish-white, weakly demarcated from the dorsum (pure white and cleanly delineated in emini); and fur is long, its texture soft and luxurient (close-cropped and slightly hispid in emini). The union of such disparate morphologies under one species deserves unambiguous demonstration.
Order Rodentia - Family Nesomyidae
distribution
Distribution: Mountains of easternmost Dem. Rep. Congo (Kivu), S Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi; limits unknown.
Order Rodentia - Family Nesomyidae
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Nesomyidae
conservation
Status and Conservation. Not assessed on The IUCN Red List. Other species of Cricetomys are hunted extensively for food. If the Kivu Giant Pouched Rat is also hunted in its limited distribution, its conservation status could be negatively affected.
Nesomyidae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 4263433.