Beamys major
Dollman, 1914
Greater Long-tailed Pouched Rat
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Rodentia |
| Suborder | : Supramyomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Myomorphi |
| Superfamily | : Muroidea |
| Family | : Nesomyidae |
| Subfamily | : Cricetomyinae |
| Genus | : Beamys |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005
Authority citation
Dollman, G. 1914-11-01. On a new species of the rare genus Beamys from Nyasaland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)14(83):428.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18616663Original name as described
Beamys major
Other common names
Greater Pouched Rat
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1914.10.22.2
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/bd094c64-276f-4462-b028-747cd70b1767Type locality
"Mlanje, Nyasaland," Malawi, south-eastern Africa.
Biogeographic realm
Afrotropic
Country distribution
Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique
Taxonomy notes
has been considered a synonym of B. hindei, but it is considered distinct following recent publications
Taxonomy notes citation
Monadjem, A., Taylor, P. J., Denys, C., & Cotterill, F. P. (2015). Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa: A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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