MSW Scientific Names

Dendromus insignis



• Author........ : (Thomas, 1903).
  
• Citation...... : Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 12:341.
  
• Common Name... : Remarkable Climbing Mouse
  
• Distribution.. :Discontinuous highland range from Ethiopia (Yalden et al., 1976ref, recorded under mesomelas), E Kenya (Hollister, 1919ref), Western Rift mountains from W Uganda south to Rwanda, and Mt. Kilimanjaro in NE Tanzania; extent of montane distribution unknown.
  
• Type Locality. :Kenya, Nandi.
  
• Comments...... : Although insignis is now included in D. mesomelas (Bohmann, 1942ref; Misonne, 1974ref), Thomas (1916ref) noted that the "lumping of insignis with the southern D. mesomelas" appeared to be "unfounded," an evaluation ...[more]...