Angolan African Dormouse – Graphiurus angolensis

Graphiurus angolensisde Winton, 1897

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

Subgenus Graphiurus. Following the arrangement of Ellerman et al. (1953), Holden (1993) provisionally assigned dasilvai and parvulus as synonyms of G. platyops. Ansell (1974, 1978) recognized that the NW Zambian population (identified by him as G. platyops parvulus) is morphologically and ecologically different from G. platyops. Based on my study of type specimens and large series of Angolan and Zambian specimens, the Angolan and NW Zambia populations exhibit a distinctive skull morphology that is consistently separable from that of G. platyops and G. rupicola. Ansell (1974, 1978) correctly surmised that these populations are probably phylogenetically aligned with G. microtis.Graphiurus angolensis (de Winton, 1897), precedes Graphiurus parvulus Monard, 1932, and is the correct name for these populations. Assigning parvulus as a junior synonym is problematic. In describing parvulus</i... [truncated]

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.