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 Aethomys nyikae (Thomas, 1897) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1897:431 . TYPE LOCALITY: N Malawi , Nyika Plateau . DISTRIBUTION: N Zambia , Malawi , N Angola , and S Zaire ; limits unknown. SYNONYMS: dollmani . COMMENTS: Delany (1975) considered nyikae to be a synonym of kaiseri , but Davis (19756) and Ansell (1978) correctly treated it as a separate species. Ansell (1978) provided documentation for the geographic range and discussed the identity of dollmani . The published record from Eastern Ngorima Reserve in E Zimbabwe is possibly based on a misidentification as inferred by Skinner and Smithers (1990:280) .