Praomys jacksoni

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,163 meters (0 to 7,096 feet).[1]

Ecology: This species occurs primarily in lowland rainforest and secondary forest , but also recorded in cultivated and fallow land , montane forests, and forest relicts on the margins of the rainforest zone. It is occasionally found in bamboo forest and around marshes and swamps . This is a terrestrial , nocturnal and crepuscular species. It may climb up small branches up to two metres off of the ground . It is mainly a frugivorous , but partly omnivorous species. (Ref. 299524).

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Praomys montis • Praomys peromyscus

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 02-May-2001

The identity of Praomys jacksoni is currently unclear as the type collection is of a young animal and the skull is in bad condition (E. van der Straeten pers. comm. ).[2].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Praomys

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. daltoni (African Soft-Furred Rats) · P. degraaffi (De Graaff's Praomys) · P. delectorum (Delectable Soft-Furred Mouse) · P. derooi (African Soft-Furred Rats) · P. hartwigi (Hartweg's Soft-Furred Mouse) · P. jacksoni (Jackson's Praomys) · P. lukolelae (Lukolela Swamp Rat) · P. minor (Least Soft-Furred Mouse) · P. misonnei (Misonne's Praomys) · P. morio (Cameroon Soft-Furred Mouse) · P. mutoni (Muton's Soft-Furred Mouse) · P. petteri (Petter's Praomys) · P. rostratus (Forest Soft-Furred Mouse) · P. tullbergi (Tullberg's Praomys) · P. verschureni (Verschuren's Swamp Rat)

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Further Reading

• African Ixodoidea. l. Ticks of the Sudan... [Washington]1956. url p. 743, p. 757.
• Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society: official publication of the Coryndon Memorial Museum (Museum Trustees of Kenya). Nairobi, Kenya: The Museum, 1942-[1960] url p. 69.
• Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 122.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 330.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 36 1976 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 115, p. 165, p. 169, figs. 117-118, page 180.
• The mammals of Africa: country lists. Draft document IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre, UNEP, WWF url .

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 8 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Van der Straeten, E., Decher, J., Dieterlen, F., Kerbis Peterhans, J. and Agwanda, B. 2004. Praomys jacksoni. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• van der Straeten, E., Decher, J., Dieterlen, F., Kerbis Peterhans, J. & Agwanda, B. 2008. Praomys jacksoni. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• BeBIF Provider: African Rodentia
• Burke Museum: Mammal Specimens
• Field Museum: Mammal specimens
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Texas Tech University (TTU): Mammal specimens
• Royal Ontario Museum: Mammal specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 108626
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-585476
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 585476
• IUCN ID: 235412
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 6335

Footnotes

1. Mean = 546.950 meters (1,794.455 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,993.440 based on 558 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. van der Straeten, E., Decher, J., Dieterlen, F., Kerbis Peterhans, J. & Agwanda, B. 2008. Praomys jacksoni. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]

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