Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Nesomys rufus Peters, 1870 . Sitb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin , p. 55 . TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar , Antsiranana Prov. , Vohima . DISTRIBUTION: Broadly distributed in N and E forest ( audeberti and rufus ), and one locality in WC Madagascar ( lambertoni ). SYNONYMS: audeberti , lambertoni . COMMENTS: Ellerman (1941 , 1949a ) listed audeberti and lambertoni as species as described, but Petter (1972c , 1975a ) arranged them as subspecies of N. rufus . Carleton and Schmidt (1990) indicated that each will stand as a species upon revision.