Saccostomus mearnsi

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: It occurs in dry savanna woodland, grassland and from very arid areas in Somalia. This species is usually found in dry conditions which would explain its absence from the moist areas of Kenya. It is also found in crop land .[1].

List of Habitats :

•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     8     Desert   
  
•     8.1     Desert - Hot   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 09-Jun-2004

This is a species complex (M. Corti pers. comm. , 2004).[1].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Saccostomus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. campestris (Southern African Pouched Mouse) · S. mearnsi (East African Pouched Mouse)

More Info

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Further Reading

• African game trails, an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist, by Theodore Roosevelt; with more than two hundred illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings by Philip R. Goodwin. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910. url p. 537.
• African game trails: an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. url p. 473.
• African game trails; London, Syndicate publishing company[1910?] url p. 537.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , , , p. 114, p. 174, p. 488, p. 580.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 157 2001 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 117, p. 358.
• Mammals collected by the Swedish Zoological Expedition to British East Africa 1911 / by Einar Lönnberg. With 15 plates and 6 figures in the text. Uppsala; Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1912. url p. 96.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 248.
• The families and genera of living rodents / by J.R. Ellerman; with a list of named forms (1758-1936) by R.W. Hayman and G.W.C.Holt. London: British Museum, 1941. url p. 286.

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.
• Corti, M., Oguge, N. & Coetzee, N. 2008. Saccostomus mearnsi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• Corti, M., Oguge, N. and Coetzee, N. 2004. Saccostomus mearnsi. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• BeBIF Provider: African Rodentia
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Texas Tech University (TTU): Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 107815
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-632777
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 632777
• IUCN ID: 240329
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3847

Footnotes

1. Corti, M., Oguge, N. & Coetzee, N. 2008. Saccostomus mearnsi. 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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