NRM 532048
Mus striatus
Current taxonomic status
Current name Lemniscomys striatus, family Muridae (Mammalia: Rodentia).
Specimen data
1 complete specimen in alcohol, 118.1 mm long (Carleton & Van der Straeten, 1997: 672).
Original description
Mus striatus Linnaeus, 1758: 62 (type locality: India).
Other references
Mus striatus Linnaeus, 1754: 10.
Type status
Recognised as holotype of Mus striatus by Carleton & Van der Straeten (1997: 672), and is thereby lectotype of Mus striatus.
Curatorial record
To be added.
Remarks
Carleton & Van der Straeten (1997) revised Lemniscomys striatus and commented on the specimens currently catalogued as NRM 532048. Carletom & Van der Straeten (1997) did not observe Linnaeus's (1758) reference to 'Mus orientalis' in Seba (1734-1765) which would also represent a part of the type series.
Literature cited
CARLETON, M.D. & E. VAN DER STRAETEN. 1997. Morphological differentiation among Subsaharan and North African populations of the Lemniscomys barbarus complex (Rodentia: Muridae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 110: 640-680.
LINNAEUS, C. 1754. Hans Maj:ts Adolf Frideriks vår allernådigste konungs naturalie samling innehållande sällsynte och främmande djur, som bevaras på kongl. lust-slottet Ulriksdahl beskrefne och afritade samt på nådig befallning utgifne af Carl Linnaeus. Stockholm, I-XXX, 1-96 pp. + 7 pp.
LINNAEUS, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae, 823 pp.
SEBA, A. 1734-1765. Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimus expressio, per universam physices historiam opus, cui ex toto terrarum orbe collegit, digessit, descripsit et depingendum curavit A. Seba. Anstelaedami, 4 vols.
Authors: Sven O Kullander (text, scanning), Anders Silfvergrip (photographs)
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