Dendromus rogersi

Kerbis Peterhans & Voelker in Mulualem, Lavrenchenko, Kerbis Peterhans, Mikula, Bryjová, Meheretu, & Bryja, 2024

Rogers' 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

Authority citation

Mulualem, G., Lavrenchenko, L.A., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Mikula, O., Bryjová, A., Meheretu, Y. and Bryja, J. 2024-10-17. Taxonomic revision and evolutionary history of the climbing mice in eastern Africa (Dendromus mystacalis clade): the role of elevation and geographical barriers in the speciation process. Organisms Diversity & Evolution (in press).

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-024-00659-6

Original name as described

Dendromus rogersi

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:174192

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Tanzania, Kilimanjaro Region, Moshi District, Mt. Kilimanjaro National Park, 10.5 km N and 3.5 km W of Maua (3° 10.627 S, 37° 26.413 E) at an elevation of 9500' (2897 m a.s.l.)."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Tanzania

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Mulualem, G., Lavrenchenko, L.A., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Mikula, O., Bryjová, A., Meheretu, Y. and Bryja, J. 2024-10-17. Taxonomic revision and evolutionary history of the climbing mice in eastern Africa (Dendromus mystacalis clade): the role of elevation and geographical barriers in the speciation process. Organisms Diversity & Evolution (in press).

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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