Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
Reference for:
Lemniscomys barbarus
Expert:
Michael D. Carleton
Notes:
Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
Reference for:
Lemniscomys barbarus
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:
Lemniscomys barbarus
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:
Lemniscomys barbarus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Rosevear, D. R.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1969-01-01 / 1969-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
The Rodents of West Africa
Page(s):
604
Publisher:
Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History)
Publication Place:
London, England
ISBN/ISSN:
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Notes:
Reference for:
Lemniscomys barbarus
Lemniscomys barbarus: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Africa
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Lemniscomys barbarus: Comments
Comment:
Status: IUCN - Least Concern
Comment:
Comments: Member of the L. barbarus group, which also contains L. zebra and L. hoogstraali. Carleton and Van der Straeten (1997) provided a comprehensive systematic revision of this assemblage. Results of their morphometric and color pattern analyses demonstrated that the populations formerly constituting L. barbarus (e. g., as listed by Musser and Carleton, 1993) actually consists of L. barbarus, which is endemic to NW Africa, and L. zebra, stretching across Subsaharan Africa from Senegal in the wes...
Comment:
Wilson and Reeder (2005) cite the publication date of Lemniscomys barbarus as (Linnaeus, 1766), but the original combination was published in pt. 2 of Linnaeus Systema Naturae 12th edition, thus in 1767