Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species Author Bryja, Josef Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic & Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic bryja@ivb.cz Author Kerbis Peterhans, Julian C. Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA & College of Arts & Science, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL 60605, USA Author Lavrenchenko, Leonid A. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Author Nicolas, Violaine Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, 75005 Paris, France Author Denys, Christiane Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, 75005 Paris, France Author Bryjová, Anna Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic Author Šumbera, Radim Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic Author Mikula, Ondřej Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic text Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2025 Statistics in Society 2024-05-25 203 2 1 20 https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae057 journal article 308541 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae057 2341fbc3-39dc-430b-addd-24707d086e77 0024-4082 14971741

Table 1. List of Grammomys type specimens and their morphometric classification. The numbers indicate posterior probabilities of assigning the type specimen to one of four main genetic groups; the highest probability is in bold.

Type	Museum ID	Age, state	cometes	dolichurus	macmillani	surdaster
aSkull is not complete, only analysis of reduced number of landmarks was performed and the position of types is not shown in Fig.4. bWhen only shape was analysed,it was assigned to the macmillani group with posterior probability = 0.90.
angolensis a	AMNH M-081947	Adult, broken	0.01	0	0.26	0.73
aridulus	NHMUK ZD-1923.1.1.324	Adult	0	0	0.90	0.10
aliolus a	NHMUK ZD-1906.4.3.51	Juvenile, broken	0	0.20	0.05	0.75
brevirostris	NHMUK ZD-1976.838	Adult	0.05	0	0.85	0.09
buntingi	NHMUK ZD-1911.7.28.27	Adult	0	0	0.99	0.01
callithrix	AMNH M-049789	Adult	0	0	0.40	0.60
caniceps	ZFMK 1984.76	Adult	0	0	0.07	0.93
caniceps (par.)	SMNS 38200	Sub-adult	0	0	0.89	0.11
caniceps (par.)	ZFMK 1984.74	Sub-adult	0	0	0.11	0.89
cometes	NHMUK ZD-1906.11.8.115	Adult	0.65	0.30	0	0.05
cometes (par.)	NHMUK ZD-1906.11.8.113	Adult	1.00	0	0	0
cometes (par.)	NHMUK ZD-1906.11.8.114	Adult	1.00	0	0	0
dryas	NHMUK ZD-1906.7.1.136	Sub-adult	0	0.43	0.03	0.54
elgonis	NHMUK ZD-1910.4.1.189	Juvenile	0	0	0.18	0.81
erythropygus a	FMNH 067061	Sub-adult, broken	0	0	0.81	0.19
gazellae a	NHMUK ZD-1908.4.2.47	Adult, broken	0	0	0.20	0.80
gigas b	NHMUK ZD-1911.4.7.93	Sub-adult	0.95	0.02	0.03	0.01
ibeanus	FMNH 017096	Adult	0.35	0.11	0.35	0.19
insignis a	NHMUK ZD-1910.4.1.186	Adult, broken	0	0.91	0	0.08
littoralis	USNM 181799	Adult	0.88	0	0.03	0.09
lutosus a	NHMUK ZD-1912.7.1.265	Sub-adult, broken	0.01	0.27	0.06	0.67
macmillani a	NHMUK ZD-1906.11.1.38	Juvenile, broken	0	0.02	0.24	0.74
minnae	SMNS 24118	Adult	0	0	0.98	0.02
minnae (par.)	SMNS 23624	Sub-adult	0	0	0.91	0.09
oblitus	FMNH 017123	Sub-adult	0	0	0.32	0.68
polionops	FMNH 017112	Sub-adult	0	0	1.00	0
selousi	MNHN ZM-2007-1231	Juvenile	1.00	0	0	0
silindensis	TM 07753	Adult	0.72	0.02	0.06	0.19
surdaster a	NHMUK ZD-1893.5.2.27	Adult, broken	0	0	0.01	0.99
tongensis	TM 06111	Adult	0	0.20	0.09	0.71
vumbaensis	TM 08372	Adult	0	0.14	0.02	0.84
discolor	NHMUK ZD-1906.5.6.5	Juvenile, damaged
dolichurus	RMNH MAM-26543	Damaged
dolichurus	RMNH MAM-26544	Damaged
caniceps (par.)	ZFMK 1984.31	Juvenile	0	0	0.80	0.20
caniceps (par.)	ZFMK 1984.32	Juvenile	0	0	0.06	0.94
caniceps (par.)	ZFMK 1984.33	Juvenile	0	0	0.46	0.54
caniceps (par.)	ZFMK 1984.34	Juvenile	0	0	0.73	0.27
caniceps (par.)	ZFMK 1984.75	Juvenile	0	0	0.53	0.47
usambarae	Not found/included
ochraceus	Not found/included