Four new species of the Hylomyscus anselli group (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muridae) from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68081766:_____/20:00523163 RIV/00216224:14310/20:00118018

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.zoologicalbulletin.de/BzB_Volumes/Volume_69_1/055_kerbis_peterhans_20200228.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.zoologicalbulletin.de/BzB_Volumes/Volume_69_1/055_kerbis_peterhans_20200228.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.20363/BZB-2020.69.1.055" target="_blank" >10.20363/BZB-2020.69.1.055</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Four new species of the Hylomyscus anselli group (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muridae) from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania

Original language description

As in many other small mammal groups from the Afrotropics, the number of species recognized within the genus Hylomyscus has increased considerably over the past dozen years. The last comprehensive review (2005) of the genus recognized eight species. Since that time, nine additional species have been elevated from synonymy (n = 4) or described as new (n = 5). Here we describe four additional new species supported by morphological and molecular evidence, all collected by the late William Stanley. Two of the new taxa are sympatric and come from the poorly known left bank (direction source to mouth) of the Congo River. One of these (Hylomyscus pygmaeus sp. nov.) is easily recognized, as it is tiny and significantly smaller than any known species of the genus; the second new species (Hylomyscus thornesmithae sp. nov.) is also small, and syntopic with the first. The third new species (Hylomyscus stanleyi sp. nov.), from the SW corner of Tanzania, is quite large and had been previously included within the hypodigm of Hylomyscus anselli following its recognition from within the synonymy of Hylomyscus denniae. The fourth species (Hylomyscus mpungamachagorum sp. nov.) is from Mahale Mountains National Park, western Tanzania. Our study reveals a much higher species diversity of the genus than previously known, providing insights into additional Afrotropical and Afromontane centers of endemism that require further exploration. ©ZFMK

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bonn Zoological Bulletin

ISSN

2190-7307

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

69

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

55-83

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85091209298