Annotated checklist, taxonomy and distribution of rodents in Ethiopia

J Bryja, Y Meheretu, R Šumbera, LA Lavrenchenko - Folia zoologica, 2019 - BioOne
We provide an annotated checklist of rodents of Ethiopia. For each species we show a
distributional map based on critically revised data from:(1) published literature;(2) museum …

Diversity and conservation of Ethiopian mammals: what have we learned in 30 years?

LA Lavrenchenko, A Bekele - Ethiopian journal of biological …, 2017 - ejol.ethernet.edu.et
For over thirty years, the Mammal Research Group of Joint Ethio-Russian Biological
Expedition (JERBE) studied diversity and evolution of Ethiopian mammals. The goal of the …

Four New Bat Species (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii Complex) Reflect Plio-Pleistocene Divergence of Dwarfs and Giants across an Afromontane Archipelago

PJ Taylor, S Stoffberg, A Monadjem, MC Schoeman… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Gigantism and dwarfism evolve in vertebrates restricted to islands. We describe four new
species in the Rhinolophus hildebrandtii species-complex of horseshoe bats, whose …

Reticulate Pleistocene evolution of Ethiopian rodent genus along remarkable altitudinal gradient

J Bryja, D Kostin, Y Meheretu, R Šumbera… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Ethiopian highlands are the most extensive complex of mountainous habitats in Africa.
The presence of the Great Rift Valley (GRV) and the striking elevational ecological gradients …

Complex reticulate evolution of speckled brush‐furred rats (Lophuromys) in the Ethiopian centre of endemism

VA Komarova, DS Kostin, J Bryja, O Mikula… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Ethiopian highlands represent a remarkable biodiversity 'hot spot'with a very high
number of endemic species, even among vertebrates. Ethiopian representatives of a …

Why one century of phenetics is enough: response to “are there really twice as many bovid species as we thought?”

FPD Cotterill, PJ Taylor, S Gippoliti… - Systematic …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Heller et al.(2013), hereafter H&A, argue that the recent revision of the Bovidae (Groves and
Grubb 2011), hereafter G&G (and see also Groves and Leslie 2011) is rife with Type 1 …

Molecular phylogeny of Panaspis and Afroablepharus skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) in the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa

MF Medina, AM Bauer, WR Branch, A Schmitz… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
African snake-eyed skinks are relatively small lizards of the genera Panaspis and
Afroablepharus. Species allocation of these genera frequently changed during the 20th …

An annotated checklist of mammals of Kenya

S Musila, A Monadjem, PW Webala… - Zoological …, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Kenya has a rich mammalian fauna. We reviewed recently published books and papers
including the six volumes of Mammals of Africa to develop an up-to-date annotated checklist …

Biogeographic implications of small mammals from Northern Highlands in Tanzania with first data from the volcanic Mount Kitumbeine

C Sabuni, T Aghová, A Bryjová, R Šumbera, J Bryja - Mammalia, 2018 - degruyter.com
Small terrestrial mammals and their biogeographical affinities were studied on Mount
Kitumbeine, one of the little known volcanoes in the Gregory Rift Valley (northern Tanzania) …

Genomic diversity, evolutionary history, and species limits of the endemic Ethiopian laminate-toothed rats (genus Otomys, Rodentia: Muridae)

D Mizerovská, AA Martynov, O Mikula… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Ethiopian Highlands represent one of the most important centres of endemism
on Earth. Six endemic species of laminate-toothed rats have been reported from Ethiopia in …