Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
Reference for:
Dasymys incomtus
Expert:
Michael D. Carleton
Notes:
Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
Reference for:
Dasymys incomtus
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Dasymys incomtus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Superfamily Muroidea
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
Page(s):
894-1531
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Dasymys incomtus
Dasymys incomtus: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Africa
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Dasymys incomtus: Comments
Comment:
Status: IUCN - Data Deficient
Comment:
Comments: Despite recent attempts at systematic revision (e. g., W. Verheyen et al., 2003), morphological and geographic definition of D. incomtus remains intractable and probably a complex of several species. W. Verheyen et al. (2003), for example, considered bentleyae to be one of the synonyms of D. incomtus in one part of their report (p. 36) but elsewhere treated it as a separate species with an expansive range '... consisting mainly of the fringes of the lowland rain forest between the Atlantic ...