The status of Otomys orestes dollmani Heller, 1912 (Muridae: Otomyinae), a rodent described from the Mathews Range, central Kenya

Species limits within the Praomys delectorum group (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae) of East Africa: a morphometric reassessment and biogeographical implications

“…The patterns of non‐geographical cranial variation attributable to age and sex factors in Praomys delectorum ( melanotus ) closely agree with results reported for many other African muroid rodents, including Dasymys (Carleton & Martinez, 1991), Hylomyscus (Carleton & Stanley, 2005), Lemniscomys (Van der Straeten & Verheyen, 1978; Carleton & Van der Straeten, 1997), and Otomys (Carleton & Schaefer Byrne, 2006). In the following descriptive tables and morphometric comparisons, we combined measurements of males and females and, except for a priori elimination of juvenile specimens, did not statistically control for age‐related size effects in conveying multivariate results.…”

Speciation mirrors geomorphology and palaeoclimatic history in African laminate-toothed rats (Muridae: Otomyini) of the Otomys denti and Otomys lacustris species-complexes in the ‘Montane Circle’ of East Africa

“…Members of the genera Otomys F. Cuvier, 1824, Myotomys Thomas, 1918 and Parotomys Thomas, 1918 (laminate‐toothed rats) are vole‐like (large bodied, coarse‐furred, and short‐tailed) African rodents of the murid tribe Otomyini (sometimes elevated to Subfamily Otomyinae), affiliated to ‘arvicanthine’ African rodents but having unique laminate molars (Sénégas, 2001; Taylor, Denys & Mukerjee, 2004a; Musser & Carleton, 2005; Carleton & Byrne, 2006). The cladistic validity of the three genera recognized by Musser & Carleton (2005) and as mentioned above is under debate, with the monophyly of all three genera having been questioned by recent phylogenetic studies based on allozymes, morphology, and mitochondrial (mt)DNA sequences (Maree, 2002; Taylor et al.…”

“…However, in recent years, a more careful analysis of isolated Afromontane populations from eastern and western Africa (e.g. Dieterlen & van der Straeten, 1992; Taylor & Kumirai, 2001; Carleton & Byrne, 2006) has led to the delimitation of a greater number of recognized species [e.g. 21 in Musser & Carleton (2005), including two assigned to the genus Myotomys ].…”

“…, 2002; Bowie et al. , 2004, 2006; Carleton & Stanley, 2005; Stanley & Olson, 2005; Stanley, Rogers & Hutterer, 2005; Carleton & Byrne, 2006; Carleton, Peterhans & Stanley, 2006; Huhndorf, Kerbis Peterhans & Loew, 2007; Kerbis Peterhans & Hutterer, 2008).…”

A Systematic Review of SulawesiBunomys(Muridae, Murinae) with the Description of Two New Species

“…This is the pattern illustrated in the principal components ordination comparing samples of B. chrysocomus with the morphologically similar B. coelestis (fig. 42); other examples are provided by Carleton and Martinez (1991), Carleton and Musser (1995), Carleton et al (1999, Carleton and Byrne (2006), Arroyo-Cabrales (2009), Carleton andStanley (2012), Musser et al (1998), andVoss et al (2002) for Mexican, Central American, South American, and African muroids; by Anderson and Gutiérrez (2009) Present samples of B. penitus provide one pattern of variation in cranial and dental variables among highland populations; that picture may be altered or substantiated after study of material from unsampled highlands and larger series from some of those places recorded here. Aside from the samples from Gunung Kanino and Gunung Nokilalaki, the other population samples are small, three to seven useable intact specimens in those from Rano Rano, Gunung Lehio, Mamasa Area, and Pegunungan Latimojong, and 11 in the Pegunungan Mekongga lot (tables 61, 62).…”