Anotovaný seznam, taxonomie a rozšíření hlodavců v Etiopii

0520510 - ÚBO 2020 SK eng A - Abstract
Bryja, Josef - Šumbera, R. - Meheretu, Y. - Lavrenchenko, L. A.
Anotovaný seznam, taxonomie a rozšíření hlodavců v Etiopii.
[Annotated checklist, taxonomy and distribution of rodents in Ethiopia.]
Výskum a ochrana cicavcov na Slovensku. Zborník abstraktov zo 14. celoštátnej vedeckej konferencie s medzinárodnou účasťou. Banská Bystrica: Fakulta prírodných vied Univerzity Mateja Bela, 2019 - (Urban, P.; Lukáčová, A.). s. 10. ISBN 978-80-557-1657-2.
[Výskum a ochrana cicavcov na Slovensku /14./. 14.11.2019-15.11.2019, Banská Bystrica]
Institutional support: RVO:68081766
Keywords : biodiversity * Ethiopian Highlands * biogeography * Somali-Masai savanna * Sudanian savanna
OECD category: Zoology

We provide an annotated checklist of rodents of Ethiopia. For each species we show a distributional map based on critically revised data from: (1) the literature; (2) museum collections including those records in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF); and (3) recent field surveys performed in the last three decades within the Joint Ethio-Russian Biological Expedition (JERBE) and Ethio-Czech Research Projects. The recent material was in most cases analysed in detail by genetic and/or morphometric approaches. In total, the Ethiopian rodent fauna consists of 104 species (40 genera, 10 families). Compared to previous studies we were not able to confirm the presence of 12 species, mostly due to the lack of data from arid lowland areas, however, some of these may be extinct. On the other hand, we report the occurrence of > 40 species that had not been included in the previous checklist published in 1996 (with many of them still requiring formal description). Out of the total number of species, most are Ethiopian endemics (44 species = 42.3%), followed by those living in Somali-Masai (27) and Sudanian (12) savannas. The checklist clearly confirms the disproportionately high value of Ethiopian biodiversity and should serve as a basis for its conservation.
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