Chingawaemys rarus

Lavrenchenko, Mikula, & Bryja in Nicolas, Mikula, Lavrenchenko, Šumbera, Bartáková, Bryjová, Meheretu, E. Verheyen, Missoup, Lemmon, Moriarty Lemmon, & Bryja, 2021

Chingawa Forest Rat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Nicolas, V., Mikula, O., Lavrenchenko, L.A., Šumbera, R., Bartáková, V., Bryjová, A., Meheretu, Y., Verheyen, E., Missoup, A.D., Lemmon, A.R., Moriarty Lemmon, E. and Bryja, J. 2021-10. Phylogenomics of African radiation of Praomyini (Muridae: Murinae) rodents: First fully resolved phylogeny, evolutionary history and delimitation of extant genera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 163:107263.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107263

Original name as described

Chingawaemys rarus

Type material

ZMMU S-181580

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Chingawa Forest, 25 km north of Tepi (07°25′ N 35°24′ E, 2340 m a.s.l.), southwestern Ethiopia."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Ethiopia

Taxonomy notes

recently described genus and species

Taxonomy notes citation

Nicolas, V., Mikula, O., Lavrenchenko, L. A., Šumbera, R., Bartáková, V., Bryjová, A., ... & Bryja, J. (2021). Phylogenomics of African radiation of Praomyini (Muridae: aMurinae) rodents: first fully resolved phylogeny, evolutionary history and delimitation of extant genera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107263.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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