Malacomys edwardsi Rochebrune 1885
| Autor: | Decher, Jan, Norris, Ryan W., Abedi-Lartey, Michael, Oppong, James, Hutterer, Rainer, Weinbrenner, Martin, Koch, Martin, Podsiadlowski, Lars, Kilpatrick, C. William |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.4783968 |
| Popis: | Malacomys edwardsi Rochebrune, 1885 Malacomys edwardsi Rochebrune, 1885: 87. COMMON NAME. — Edwards’ Swamp Rat. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Apesokubi • 1 ♀; USNM 59078; 28.VIII.2001; with four embryos (USNM 590105) with a crown -rump length of 19 mm • 2 ♂; USNM 590076, ZTNHC 960 • 1 ♀; USNM 590077. REMARK An obligate forest species in the Upper Guinea and an indicator of intact forest. A recent phylogeographic study confirmed the identification of all four of our M. edwardsi from Apesokubi but showed that these Volta Region specimens represent a lineage (F2) separate from the southwestern Ghanaian lineage (F1), “which may suggest the presence of multiple forest refugia” in Ghana (Bohoussou et al. 2015: 9). Hurst et al. (1995) reported 5 captures of M. edwardsi from moist semi-deciduous and secondary forest in KRNP which appears to be the only previous record of this species from the Ghana-Togo Highlands. We were not able to verify this species again at KRNP. CONSERVATION STATUS. — Malacomys edwardsi is currently listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List, but - already limited to the densest and best preserved forest in the Volta Region - it would be one of the first rodent species to disappear with continued deforestation. Published as part of Decher, Jan, Norris, Ryan W., Abedi-Lartey, Michael, Oppong, James, Hutterer, Rainer, Weinbrenner, Martin, Koch, Martin, Podsiadlowski, Lars & Kilpatrick, C. William, 2021, A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation, pp. 253-281 in Zoosystema 43 (14) on page 264, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14, http://zenodo.org/record/4783781 {"references":["ROCHEBRUNE A. T. 1885. - Vertebratorum novorum vel minus cognitorum orae Africae occidentalis incolarum. Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique de Paris (ser. 7) 9: 86 - 100. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31945680","BOHOUSSOU K. H., CORNETTE R., AKPATOU B., COLYN M., KERBIS PETERHANS J., KENNIS J., SUMBERA R., VERHEYEN E., N'GORAN E., KATUALA P. & NICOLAS V. 2015. - The phylogeography of the rodent genus Malacomys suggests multiple Afrotropical Pleistocene lowland forest refugia. Journal of Biogeography 42: 2049 - 2061. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jbi. 12570","HURST J., BOWES LYON D. & KEEFE E. O' 1995. - Kyabobo' 94: a joint Ghanaian and Oxford University Expedition. Final Report. KCP Publications, Ghana Wildlife Department, Institute for Renewable Natural Resources, 69 p."]} |
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