Dendromus oreas

Osgood, 1936

Cameroon 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

Osgood, W.H. 1936-12-28. New and imperfectly known small mammals from Africa. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 20(21):217-256.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2778330

Original name as described

Dendromus oreas

Other common names

Cameroon Climbing Mouse

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:42645

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=8a67b54d-3d27-4d30-9ad4-22e0d7a566ce

Type locality

"southwest side of Mount Cameroon, Cameroon Mandate, British Nigeria. Alt. 9,000 ft [= 2743 m].".

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Cameroon

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003724

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Dendromus oreas

Osgood, 1936

Family

Nesomyidae

Root name

oreas

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

FMNH:Mamm:42645

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=8a67b54d-3d27-4d30-9ad4-22e0d7a566ce

Authority page

236

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2778330

Authority publication

Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series

Name usages

  1. Musser & Carleton (1993:543) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63347)
  2. Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
  3. Happold (2013:182) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27625)
  4. Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:198) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #6448) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #6448) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003724) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6448/115081767) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Dendromus mesomelas oreas

Eisentraut, 1963

Family

Nesomyidae

Root name

oreas

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

148

Authority publication

Hamburg

Name usages

Eisentraut (1963:148) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68788)

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