Biology:Hylomyscus

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Short description: Genus of rodents

Hylomyscus
Temporal range: Recent
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Tribe: Praomyini
Genus: Hylomyscus
Thomas, 1926
Type species
Epimys aeta
Thomas, 1911
21 Species

Hylomyscus aeta
Hylomyscus alleni
Hylomyscus anselli
Hylomyscus arcimontensis
Hylomyscus baeri
Hylomyscus carillus
Hylomyscus denniae
Hylomyscus endorobae
Hylomyscus grandis
Hylomyscus heinrichorum
Hylomyscus kerbispeterhansi
Hylomyscus mpungamachagorum
Hylomyscus pamfi
Hylomyscus parvus
Hylomyscus pygmaeus
Hylomyscus stanleyi
Hylomyscus stella
Hylomyscus simus
Hylomyscus thornesmithae
Hylomyscus vulcanorum
Hylomyscus walterverheyeni

Hylomyscus is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae endemic to Africa.

It contains 21 species divided into six species groups:[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

  • H. aeta group
    • Beaded wood mouse, Hylomyscus aeta (Thomas, 1911)
    • Mount Oku wood mouse, Hylomyscus grandis Eisentraut, 1969
  • H. alleni group
    • Allen's wood mouse, Hylomyscus alleni (Waterhouse, 1838)
    • Angolan wood mouse, Hylomyscus carillus (Thomas, 1904)
    • Hylomyscus pamfi Nicolas, Olayemi, Wendelen & Colyn, 2010
    • Flat-nosed wood mouse, Hylomyscus simus (Allen & Coolidge, 1930)
    • Stella wood mouse, Hylomyscus stella (Thomas, 1911)
    • Walter Verheyen's mouse, Hylomyscus walterverheyeni Nicolas, Wendelen, Barriere, Dudu & Colyn, 2008
  • H. anselli group
    • Ansell's wood mouse, Hylomyscus anselli Bishop, 1979
    • Arc Mountain wood mouse, Hylomyscus arcimontensis Carleton & Stanley, 2005
    • Heinrich's wood mouse, Hylomyscus heinrichorum Carleton, Banasiak & Stanley, 2015
    • Kerbis Peterhans's wood mouse, Hylomyscus kerbispeterhansi Demos, Agwanda & Hickerson, 2014
    • Mahale wood mouse, Hylomyscus mpungamachagorum Demos, Hutterer & Kerbis Peterhans, 2020
    • Pygmy wood mouse, Hylomyscus pygmaeus Kerbis Peterhans, Hutterer & Demos, 2020
    • Stanley’s wood mouse, Hylomyscus stanleyi Kerbis Peterhans, Hutterer & Demos, 2020
    • Mother Ellen’s wood mouse, Hylomyscus thornesmithae (Kerbis Peterhans, Hutterer & Demos, 2020)
  • H. baeri group
  • H. denniae group
    • Montane wood mouse, Hylomyscus denniae (Thomas, 1906)
    • Small-footed forest mouse, Hylomyscus endorobae (Heller, 1910)
    • Volcano wood mouse, Hylomyscus vulcanorum (Lönnberg & Gyldenstolpe, 1925)
  • H. parvus group

References

  1. Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13001385. 
  2. Carleton, M.D.; Stanley, W.T. (2005). "Review of the Hylomyscus denniae complex (Rodentia: Muridae) in Tanzania, with a description of a new species". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118 (3): 619–646. doi:10.2988/0006-324x(2005)118[619:rothdc2.0.co;2]. 
  3. Carleton, M.D.; Kerbis Peterhans, J.C.; Stanley, W.T. (2006). "Review of the Hylomyscus denniae group (Rodentia: Muridae) in eastern Africa, with comments on the generic allocation of Epimys endorobae Heller". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 119 (2): 293–325. doi:10.2988/0006-324x(2006)119[293:rothdg2.0.co;2]. 
  4. Nicolas, V.; Wendelen, W.; Barriere, P.; Dudu, A.; Colyn, M. (2008). "Morphometric variation in Hylomyscus alleni and H. stella (Rodentia: Muridae), and description of a new species". Journal of Mammalogy 89: 222–231. doi:10.1644/06-mamm-a-286.1. 
  5. Nicolas, V.; Olayemi, A.; Wendelen, W.; Colyn, M. (2010). "Mitochondrial DNA and morphometrical identification of a new species of Hylomyscus (Rodentia: Muridae) from West Africa". Zootaxa 2579: 30–44. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2579.1.2. 
  6. Demos, T.C.; Agwanda, B.; Hickerson, M.J. (2014). "Integrative taxonomy within the Hylomyscus denniae complex (Rodentia: Muridae) and a new species from Kenya". Journal of Mammalogy 95 (1): E1–E15. doi:10.1644/13-mamm-a-268. 
  7. Kerbis Peterhans J.C.; Hutterer, R.; Doty, J.B.; Malekani, J.M.; Moyer, D.C.; Krásová, J.; Bryja, J.; Banasiak, R.A. et al. (2020). "Four new species of the Hylomyscus anselli group (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muridae) from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania". Bonn Zoological Bulletin 69 (1): 55–83. doi:10.20363/BZB-2020.69.1.055. 

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