Biology:Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Lophuromys |
| Species: | L. brunneus
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| Binomial name | |
| Lophuromys brunneus Thomas, 1906[1]
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Thomas's Ethiopian brush-furred rat (Lophuromys brunneus), also called the brown brush-furred rat[4] or the brown brush-furred mouse,[5] is a species of brush-furred mouse[6] from Southern Ethiopia.[2]
Description
The holotype had a body 125 millimetres (4.9 in) long and a tail 80 millimetres (3.1 in) long. The body is a pale brown with a pale brown or clay-colored belly.[3]
Range and habitat
L. brunneus is endemic to the highlands of Southern Ethiopia, from the Semien Mountains to Manno-Jimma.[2] The type locality is around the Omo River.[3]
History
It was originally described as a subspecies of Lophuromys aquilus (L. aquilus brunneus) in 1906 by Oldfield Thomas, from a specimen collected 13 May 1905.[2][3] It was reclassified as a subspecies of Lophuromys flavopunctatus in 1936 as a synonym to subspecies L. flavopunctatus zaphiri. In 2002, it was elevated to species status.[2]
Phylogeny
The species is closely related to the Ethiopian forest brush-furred rat (Lophuromys chrysopus).[2] It is believed to have interbred with L. flavopunctatus.[7]
References
- ↑ "Lophuromys brunneus Thomas, 1906". https://www.gbif.org/species/4264930.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 1. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1204. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=JgAMbNSt8ikC&pg=PA1204. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Thomas, Oldfield (1906). "New Mammals collected in North-east Africa by Mr. Zahiro, and presented to the British Museum by W. N. McMillan, Esq.". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18 (106): 300–306. doi:10.1080/00222930608562614. http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/ee/77/d3/ee77d3bd0238624e5b8bf914fd797c86.pdf. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ Duff, Andrew; Lawson, Ann (2004). Mammals of the World: A Checklist. United Kingdom: A & C Black. pp. 2–5. ISBN 978-0-300-10398-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=kMxjL_xRkC4C&pg=PA215. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ Wrobel, Murray, ed (2006). Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-08-048882-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=Qn1A9Y1OA2oC&pg=PA259. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ Myers, P.; R. Espinosa (2014). "Lophuromys brunneus". http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Lophuromys_brunneus/classification/.
- ↑ Lavrenchenko, Leonid A.; Verheyen, Erik; Potapov, Sergei G.; Lebedev, Vladimir S.; Bulatova, Nina S.H.; Aniskin, Vladimir M.; Verheyen, Walter N.; Ryskov, Alexey P. (20 October 2004). "Divergent and reticulate processes in evolution of Ethiopian Lophuromys flavopunctatus species complex: evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA differentiation patterns". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83 (3): 301–316. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00390.x.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q2847063 entry
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