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Barbour's Vlei Rat
Otomys barbouri Lawrence & Loveridge, 1953
Also calledBarbour-Lamellenzahnratte (deu) · BarbourLamellenzahnratte (deu) · Otomys de Barbour (fra) · Rat du vlei de Barbour (fra) · uszkor wrzoścowy (pol) · バブアーヤブカローネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard vol.110 p.63
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Lawrence and Loveridge (1953) emphasized the contrasts between their new species and O. (Anchotomys) anchietae, but Misonne (1974) reassigned it as a synonym of the latter, an opinion erroneously followed by others (Honacki et al., 1982; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Musser and Carleton, 1993). Trenchant differences from O. anchietae explicated by Dieterlen and Van der Straeten (1992), who reinstated barbouri as species and suggested its closer relationship to O. occidentalis and O. lacustris; morphological and morphometric discrimination amplified by Taylor and Kimurai (2001). Knowledge of altitudinal distribution, autecology, and natural history vastly improved by the studies of Clausnitzer (2000, 2001; Clausnitzer and Kityo, 2001).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: Afro-alpine zone of Mount Elgon, ca. 3500 - 4300 m, Uganda and Kenya.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
materials_examined
Type Locality: Uganda, Mount Elgon, Kaburomi, 10,500 ft; 01 º 14 ′ N, 34 º 31 ′ E.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
activity
Activity patterns. Barbour’s Vlei Rat is diurnal and territorial.
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 barbouri in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5706737.