Dendromus messorius

O. Thomas, 1903

Banana African Climbing Mouse

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Nesomyidae
Subfamily : Dendromurinae
Genus : Dendromus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1903-09-01. New African mammalia of the genera Petrodromus, Dendromys, Mus, and Lepus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)12(69):339-344.

Original name as described

Dendromys messorius

Other common names

Banana Climbing Mouse

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1903.2.4.24

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Efulen, Bulu Country, Cameroons [= Cameroon]."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Togo? · Benin? · Nigeria · Cameroon · South Sudan · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Uganda · Kenya

Taxonomy notes

previously included D. kumasi

Taxonomy notes citation

Denys, C., & Aniskine, V. (2012). On a new species of Dendromus (Rodentia, Nesomyidae) from mount Nimba, Guinea. Mammalia, 76(3), 295-308. · Voelker, G., Huntley, J. W., Bryja, J., Denys, C., Šumbera, R., Demos, T. C., ... & Peterhans, J. K. (2021). Molecular systematics and biogeographic history of the African climbing-mouse complex (Dendromus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 161, 107166.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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