Stenocephalemys
Appearance
Stenocephalemys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Tribe: | Praomyini |
Genus: | Stenocephalemys Frick, 1914 |
Type species | |
Stenocephalemys albocaudata | |
Species | |
6, see text. |
Stenocephalemys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae.[1] The genus is endemic to Ethiopia.[2]
Species
[edit]Stenocephalemys contains six described species:[2]
- Ethiopian white-footed mouse (Stenocephalemys albipes) (Rüppell, 1842)
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat (Stenocephalemys albocaudata) Frick, 1914
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat (Stenocephalemys griseicauda) F. Petter, 1972
- Rupp's mouse (Stenocephalemys ruppi) Van der Straeten & Dieterlen, 1983
- Stenocephalemys sokolovi Lavrenchenko & Bryja, 2020
- Stenocephalemys zimai Lavrenchenko & Bryja, 2020
References
[edit]- ^ Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1500–1501. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Mizerovská, Daniela; Mikula, Ondřej; Meheretu, Yonas; Bartáková, Veronika; Bryjová, Anna; Kostin, Danila S.; Šumbera, Radim; Lavrenchenko, Leonid A.; Bryja, Josef (2020-09-10). "Integrative taxonomic revision of the Ethiopian endemic rodent genus Stenocephalemys (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini) with the description of two new species". Journal of Vertebrate Biology. 69 (2): 1. doi:10.25225/jvb.20031. ISSN 2694-7684.