What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Dalton's Praomys been recorded?

Praomys daltoni occurrence evidence comes from 1,021 records in 17 countries and territories, from 1934 to 2017. Most records come from Nigeria.

Dalton's Praomys
Dalton's Praomys — Photo (display-sized rendition): Zbyszek Boratynski · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
MammaliaRodentiaMuridaePraomys

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,021 records across 17 countries and territories, 1934–2017.

Praomys daltoni · GBIF taxon key 4264878

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: February.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

19342017

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Dalton's Praomys has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Dalton's Praomys. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Nigeria 256
Burkina Faso 117
Niger 113
Senegal 106
Mali 103
Ghana 88
Benin 83
Guinea 53
Côte d'Ivoire 44
Mauritania 28
Cameroon 8
Chad 8
Gambia 6
Sierra Leone 5
Guinea-Bissau 1
Morocco 1
South Sudan 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.