Species
Mus musculoides
Description
Mus musculoides Temminck, 1853
It is a typical species of the Sudanian savanna belt. It was previously reported from western Africa and northern Cameroon (see references in Bryja et al. 2014). Bryja et al. (2014) provided a new very distant record from western Ethiopia (Gambella region), representing the easternmost genetically confirmed locality of the species. Very probably it is also present in poorly sampled countries such as Chad, northern CAR and South Sudan. Some of the previous records of “M. tenellus” from Ethiopia (Yalden et al. 1976, 1996, GBIF database), especially those from Sudanian savanna in western part of the country, might represent this species.
Taxonomy
Mus musculoides is a species. It belogs to the Muridae family.
