Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
Reference for:
Mus callewaerti
Expert:
Michael D. Carleton
Notes:
Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
Reference for:
Mus callewaerti
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:
Mus callewaerti
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:
Mus callewaerti
Mus callewaerti: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Africa
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Mus callewaerti: Comments
Comment:
Status: IUCN - Lower Risk (lc)
Comment:
Comments: Subgenus Nannomys. Thomas described this species as a member of the genus Hylenomys, which is now united with Mus (Hill and Carter, 1941; Misonne, 1965a) as a synonym of Nannomys. It is the largest-bodied of any of the African Mus (F. Petter and Matthey, 1975), has ivory incisors and very large auditory bullae, and in external features resembles M. triton, which misled Hatt (1940a) into treating callewaerti as a subspecies of triton. Misonne (1965a) summarized distributional and other infor...