Biology:Oenomys
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Oenomys is a genus of African rodents known as rufous-nosed rats.[1] They occur from south-east Guinea and Ghana through the Congo forest to Uganda and Kenya.[2] The nose is reddish, or at least the cheeks, which suggested both the English and scientific names (oeno- means "wine" and -mys denotes a mouselike animal in Greek).[3][4]
The two recognised, living species occupy separate geographical ranges:
- Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran, 1855), common rufous-noded rat
- Oenomys hypoxanthus albiventris (Eisentraut, 1968), a montane subspecies[5]
- Oenomys ornatus (Thomas, 1911), Ghana rufous-nosed rat
- †Oenomys tiercelini[6]
References
- ↑ "Oenomys - rufous-nosed rats". University of Michigan. https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Oenomys/classification/.
- ↑ Renaud, Sabrina (1999). "Size and shape variability in relation to species differences and climatic gradients in the African rodent Oenomys" (in en). Journal of Biogeography 26 (4): 857–865. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.1999.00327.x. ISSN 1365-2699. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2699.1999.00327.x.
- ↑ "Definition of OENO-" (in en). https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oeno-.
- ↑ "Definition of -MYS" (in en). https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/-mys.
- ↑ Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig. (1950). Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn (Vol. 19, p. 8). Das Forschungsinstitut. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44746670
- ↑ Sabatier M., 1982. Les rongeurs du site Pliocène à Hominidés de Hadar (Ethiope). Palaeovertebrata 12 (1): 1-56.
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