Angolan Vlei Rat
Otomys anchietae (Bocage, 1882)
Also calledAngola-Lamellenzahnratte (deu) · Otomys d’Anchieta (fra) · Rat du vlei d’Anchiete (fra) · angolankorvarotta (fin) · myš říční (ces) · uszkor angolski (pol) · Ангольская болотная крыса (rus) · アンゴラヤブカローネズミ (jpn)
First described in: J. Sci. Acad. Lisbon vol.9 p.26
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Type species of Anchotomys, employed as a subgenus of Otomys by Thomas (1918 b). Cranial form and dental traits strongly differentiated compared with other Otomys (Taylor and Kumirai, 2001). Dieterlen and Van der Straeten (1992) reasonably argued the recognition of barbouri and lacustris, formerly arranged as subspecies (Misonne, 1974), as species (see those accounts).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: C and NE Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1998: Map 23).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: Type species of Anchotomys, employed as a subgenus of Otomys by Thomas (1918 b). Believed to be closely related to O. irroratus (Bohmann, 1952), if not conspecific with it (Petter, 1982). Dieterlen and Van der Straeten (1992) treated barbouri and lacustris as separate species.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Isolated segments in C Angola, SW Tanzania, N Malawi, and W Kenya.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Otomys anchietae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5219868.