MSW Scientific Names

Dendromus kivu



• Author........ : Thomas, 1916.
  
• Citation...... : Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 18:242.
  
• Common Name... : Kivu Climbing Mouse
  
• Distribution.. :A possible montane Western Rift endemic; recorded from the west and east slopes of the Ruwenzoris in E Zaire and W Uganda (Osgood, 1936ref, and specimens in the Field Museum of Natural History) and the Kivu region in E Zaire (samples in the AmericanMuseum of Natural History and the British Museum of Natural History).
  
• Type Locality. :Zaire, near Lake Kivu, Buhamba, 2000 m.
  
• Comments...... : Osgood (1936ref:236) discussed two series of Dendromus collected at the same time and place on the western slope of Mt. Ruwenzori. He described one as D. lunaris, based on two examples, and identified the other as D. insignis, a c ...[more]...