Title
A new species of the Eliurus majori complex (Rodentia, Muroidea, Nesomyidae) from south-central Madagascar, with remarks on emergent species groupings in the genus Eliurus
Title Variants
Alternative:
Eliurus majori complex
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 3547
By
Carleton, Michael D. (Michael Dean), 1944-
Goodman, Steven M.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2007
Notes
Title from caption.
"January 15, 2007."
Abstract also in French.
[English abstract]. A new species of Eliurus, E. danieli (Nesomyidae: Nesomyinae), is described from the Parc National de l'Isalo in south-central Madagascar. Although geographically intermediate to eastern and western forms, diagnostic traits convincingly relate the new species to E. majori and E. penicillatus, forms distributed primarily in eastern humid forest; it is morphometrically most similar to E. penicillatus. In view of the increase in number of Eliurus species (11 now described), discussion is devoted to emerging species associations (5 are identified) and to taxonomic and distributional problems introduced by the accumulation of larger series and new localities over the past decade.
Subjects
Classification
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Eliurus
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Eliurus danieli
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Geographical distribution
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Madagascar
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Mammals
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Parc national de l'Isalo
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Parc national de l'Isalo (Madagascar)
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Rodents
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.3547 2007
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3547[1:ANSOTE]2.0.CO;2
OCLC:
79626442
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