Dasymys cabrali

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Ordo: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Subordo: Cynodontia Infraordo: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohort: Theria Cohort: Eutheria Cohort: Placentalia Superordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Familia: Muridae
Subfamilia: Murinae
Genus: Dasymys
Species: Dasymys cabrali

Holotype: BMNH 35.9.1.662, adult ♂, skin and skull.

Type locality: “near the Okavango river (Omatoka Junction) - Groot Fontein District, S. W. Africa (17.56S - 20.25E; alt.± 1080 m).”

Dasymys shortridgei Mullin, Taylor & Pillay, 2004: 219 [synonymised by Hoffmann et al. (2009: 15)]

Holotype: AM 5899, adult ♂, skin and skull.

Type locality: “Okavango-Omatako, Grootfontein; 1080m, Namibia.”

Verheyen, W.N., Hulselmans, J., Dierckx, T., Colyn, M., Leirs, H. & Verheyen, E. 2003. A craniometric and genetic approach to the systematics of the genus Dasymys Peters, 1875, selection of a neotype and description of three new taxa (Rodentia, Muridae, Africa). Bulletin de L’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie 73: 27–71. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Mullin, S.K., Taylor, P.J. & Pillay, N. 2004. Skull size and shape of Dasymys (Rodentia, Muridae) from sub-Saharan Africa. Mammalia 68(2-3): 185–220. DOI: 10.1515/mamm.2004.019 Reference page.

Hoffmann, M., Grubb, P., Groves, C.P., Hutterer, R., Van Der Straeten, E., Simmons, N. & Bergmans, W. 2009. A synthesis of African and Western Indian Ocean Island mammal taxa (Class: Mammalia) described between 1988 and 2008: an update to Allen (1939) and Ansell (1989). Zootaxa 2205: 1–36. Abstract & excerpt Full article (ResearchGate) Reference page.

Dasymys cabrali in Mammal Species of the World.
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.

English: Crawford-Cabral’s Dasymys

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