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 Acomys wilsoni Thomas, 1892 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 10:22 . TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya , Mombasa . DISTRIBUTION: S Sudan , S Ethiopia , S Somalia , Kenya , and south to EC Tanzania (Kondoa; specimens in the American Museum of Natural History); limits unknown. SYNONYMS: ablutus , argillaceus, boronei, enid, nubilus. COMMENTS: Subgenus Acomys . Formerly included in subspinosus by Setzer (1975) but considered a species by Hollister (1919) , Ellerman (1941) , Matthey (1968) , Yalden et al. (1976) , Rupp (1980) , Petter and Roche (1981) , Petter (1983) , and Corbet and Hill (1991) . Genically most similar to A. percivali ( Janecek et al., 1991 ) . Specimens of nubilus are larger and longer-tailed than wilsoni and may represent a separate species; de Beaux's (1934) description of boronei recalls nubilus.