Botta's Dipodil
Dipodillus bottai (Lataste, 1882)
First described in: Le Naturaliste (Paris) vol.4 p.36
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Subgenus Petteromys. F. Petter (1975 b) listed harwoodi and bottai as species and considered luteolus as a synonym of D. campestris. Kock (1978) included luteolus and harwoodi in D. bottai. Lay (1983: 339) claimed the holotype of harwoodi lacks an accessory tympanum but holotype of luteolus has an accessory tympanum, and cannot represent the same species. Lay had not examined the holotype of bottai and rendered the conclusion that " because of the middle ear characters one of the two forms listed by Kock (1978) cannot be synonymous, perhaps neither are. " He preferred to regard D. bottai " as valid and monotypic pending revision, " and listed harwoodi as a species and luteolus as a synonym of D. stigmonyx. Pavlinov et al. (1990) reviewed the species and discussed harwoodi, luteolus, and stigmonyx under D. bottai.
Order Rodentia - Family 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
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Every page naming Dipodillus bottai in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 4264989.