MSW Scientific Names

Dendromus mesomelas



• Author........ : (Brants, 1827).
  
• Citation...... : Het. Geslacht der Muizen, p. 122.
  
• Common Name... : Brant's Climbing Mouse
  
• Distribution.. :Discontinuous ranges in South Africa (SW Cape Prov. east to Natal and E Transvaal), C Mozambique, extreme NE Zambia, N Botswana (see Map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990ref:307), extreme NW and NE Zaire (Ansell, 1978ref), highlands of N and S Malawi(Ansell and Dowsett, 1988ref), mountains of SW (Rungwe) and EC (Uluguru) Tanzania, and SE Zaire (Marungu); extent of range unresolved.
  
• Type Locality. :South Africa, E Cape Prov., Sunday's River, east of Port Elizabeth.
  
• Comments...... : We treat some of the names usually included in D. mesomelas (see Misonne, 1974ref) as distinct species (see accounts of insignis, kivu, oreas, and vernayi). Judged by our study of specimens, samples from SE Zaire and SW Tanzania a ...[more]...