Glover Allen's dasymys
{{Short description|Species of rodent}}
{{speciesbox
|name=Glover Allen's dasymys
|status=
|genus= Dasymys
|species= alleni
|authority=Lawrence and Loveridge, 1953
}}
Glover Allen's dasymys (Glover Allen's shaggy rat or Dasymys alleni) is a species of shaggy marsh rat described in 1953, and indigenous to Mount Rungwe in south-western Tanzania. Contemporary studies of the taxonomy diverge, with the International Union for Conservation of Nature recognising D. alleni as a subspecies of the more widespread D. incomtus, whereas Wilson and Reeder observe the reinstatement of the species as unique in Mammal Species of the World. In their recent analysis, Verheyen et al. describe the distribution of D. alleni as encompassing the Eastern Arc Mountains and the mountainous, volcanic regions around Lake Tanganyika, and potentially the Marungu highlands, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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References
{{Reflist|refs=
|author=Taylor, Peter J.
|year=2008
|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6269/0
|title=Dasymys incomtus
|access-date=18 September 2012}}
|title=Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. I. Mammals from Nyasaland and Tete, with notes on the Genus Otomys
|journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
|issue=110
|pages=1–80
|first1=Barbara
|last1=Lawrence
|first2=Arthur
|last2=Loveridge
|year=1953
}}
|editor1-last=Wilson
|editor1-first=Don E.
|editor2-last=Reeder
|editor2-first=DeeAnn M.
|title=Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YnYED-YG0ZYC
|access-date=18 September 2012
|date=16 November 2005
|publisher=JHU Press
|isbn=978-0-8018-8221-0
|page=1315}}
|first1=Walter N.
|last1=Verheyen
|last2=Hulselmans
|first2=Jan L. J.
|last3=Dierckx
|first3=Theo
|last4=Colyn
|first4=Marc
|last5=Leirs
|first5=Herwig
|last6=Verheyen
|first6=Erik
|title=A craniometric and genetic approach to the systematics of the genus Dasymys Peters, 1875, selection of a neotype and description of three new taxa (Rodentia, Muridae, Africa)
|journal=Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique
|issue=73
|year=2003
|pages=27–71
}}
}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book
|editor1-first=Meri
|editor1-last=Happold
|editor2-first=David C. D.
|editor2-last=Happold
|title=The Mammals of Africa
|publisher=Academic Press
|date=
|version=In press
|location=Amsterdam}}
{{Murinae (Colomys–Golunda)}}
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