Grammomys dolichurus

(Smuts, 1832)

South African Thicket Rat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Murinae
Tribe : Arvicanthini
Genus : Grammomys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Smuts, J. 1832. Dissertatio zoologica, enumerationem mammalium capensium continens. J. C. Cyfveer, Leiden, 108 pp.

Original name as described

Mus dolichurus

Other common names

Common Grammomys · Woodland Grammomys · Woodland Mouse · Woodland Thicket Mouse

Type material

RMNH.MAM.19511

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

near Cape Town, South Africa.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

South Africa · Eswatini · Lesotho? · Mozambique? · Zimbabwe?

Taxonomy notes

previously included G. surdaster and G. polionops, as well as some populations now attributed to G. macmillani and G. cometes

Taxonomy notes citation

Bryja, J., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Lavrenchenko, L.A., Nicolas, V., Denys, C., Bryjová, A., Šumbera, R. and Mikula, O. 2024. Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. (in press).

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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