Leimacomys buettneri Matschie, 1893:109
Groove-toothed forest mouse, Yefuli
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Leimacomys buttneri Matschie, 1893:109 (orthographic error); Leimacomys büttneri Matschie, 1893:109
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1890 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012; Lee et al., 2017); 1893 (Martin et al., 2023)
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Only known from two specimens collected in 1890 (van der Straeten & Schlitter, 2008). Two surveys during the 1960's didn't uncover the species (Lidicker, 1989:35). Likewise, two surveys, one in 1994 and the other in 1999 or 2000, failed to rediscover this species (Decher et. al. 2000). It's historical distribution may have included Ghana as the type locality is close to the Togolese/Ghanaian border (van der Straeten & Schlitter, 2008).
Distribution
Bismarckburg, Togo (central)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only known from two specimens collected in 1890 (van der Straeten & Schlitter, 2008).
Type locality: Bismarckburg, central Togo
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Matschie, P. (1893). Ueber anscheinend neue Afrikanische säugethiere (Leimacomys g.n.). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 4: 107-109.
Other references:
Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K.E., MacPhee, R.D.E., Beck, R.M.D., Grenyer, R., Price, S.A., Vos, R.A., Gittleman, J.L. & Purvis, A. (2007). The delayed rise of present-day mammals. Nature 446, 507-512.
Decher J and Abedi-Lartey M (2002) Small Mammal Zoogeography and Diversity in West African Forest Remnants. Unpublished report.
Decher J., Kilpatrick C. W., Bahian K. L. (2000). Small Mammal Zoogeography and Diversity in West African Forest Remnants. Progress Report to the National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration (Grant 6583–99).
Denys, Christiane. (1993). Réexamen de la dentition de Leimacomys buettneri (Mammalia, Rodentia). Hypothèses sur sa position systématique. [i]Mammalia[/i] [b]57(4)[/b]: 613-618.
Denys, Christiane, Bryjová, Anna and Bryja, Josef. (2024). Phylogenetic position of Leimacomys, an enigmatic African rodent genus, reconsidered in the light of morphological and its first genetic data. Mammalia.
https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2024-0040
Dieterlen, F. 1976. Bemerkungen über Leimacomys buettneri Matschie, 1893 (Dendromurinae, Cricetidae, Rodentia). Säugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 24: 224-228.
Fisher, Diana O. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2012). Inferring Extinction of Mammals from Sighting Records, Threats, and Biological Traits. Conservation Biology 26(1): 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01797.x
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Jones, K.E. et al. (2009). PanTHERIA: A species-level database of life-history, ecology and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology 90: 2648.
Lee, T. E., Fisher, D. O., Blomberg, S. P. and Wintle, B. A. (2017). Extinct or still out there? Disentangling influences on extinction and rediscovery helps to clarify the fate of species on the edge. Global Change Biology 23(2): 621-634. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13421
Lidicker, William Z. Jr. (ed.). (1989). Rodents: A World Survey of Species of Conservation Concern. Occasional Papers of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) No. 4. iv + 60 pp.
Martin, Thomas E., Bennett, Gareth C., Fairbairn, Andrew J. and Mooers, A. Ø. (2023). ‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications. Animal Conservation 26(1): 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12788 [Appendix S2 (1617 taxa not seen >10 years); Appendix S3 (562 taxa not seen >50 years)]
Misonne, X. (1966). The systematic position of Mystromys longicaudatus Noack, and of Leimacomys buettneri Matschie. Annals Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Sci. Zool., 144:41-45.
Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History),
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Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
van der Straeten, E. & Schlitter, D. (2008). Leimacomys buettneri. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 20 April 2011.
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