Glover Allen's dasymys (Glover Allen's shaggy rat or ''Dasymys alleni'') is a species of shaggy marsh rat described in 1953, and indigenous to

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in south-western

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. Contemporary studies of the taxonomy diverge, with the

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recognising ''D. alleni'' as a subspecies of the more widespread '' D. incomtus'', whereas Wilson and Reeder observe the reinstatement of the species as unique in ''

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''. In their recent analysis, Verheyen ''et al.'' describe the distribution of ''D. alleni'' as encompassing the

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and the mountainous, volcanic regions around

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, and potentially the

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, in the

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q1765937 Mammals described in 1953 Mammals of Tanzania Dasymys

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