A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation Author Decher, Jan Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) and Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) j. decher @ leibniz-zfmk. de Author Norris, Ryan W. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH 45804 (USA) ryanwnorris @ gmail. com ryanwnorris@gmail.com Author Abedi-Lartey, Michael Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc., Monrovia Office: Unit 102, Wazni Building, 13 th Street and Tubman Boulevard, Sinkor, Monrovia (Liberia) Author Oppong, James Wildlife Division, Forestry Commission, P. O. Box M 239, Accra (Ghana) Author Hutterer, Rainer Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) Author Weinbrenner, Martin Philosophenweg 12, 77654 Offenburg (Germany) Author Koch, Martin Department of Biogeography, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, D- 54296 Trier (Germany) Author Podsiadlowski, Lars Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) Author Kilpatrick, C. William Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) wkilpatr @ uvm. edu wkilpatr@uvm.edu text Zoosystema 2021 2021-05-20 43 14 253 281 journal article 6523 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14 b1eb9973-f581-4a60-9c87-68b7ae4b3591 1638-9387 4783781 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7008A933-FE5E-405E-BBAD-8C06D2A8807D Gerbilliscus kempi ( Wroughton, 1906 ) Tatera kempii Wroughton, 1906: 375 . COMMON NAME. — Kemp’s Gerbil. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Kalakpa Resource Reserve • 1 ♂ ; brought to us by a Ghana Wildlife Division game scout; 18.XI.1999 ; ZT- NHC 973 . REMARK This species is known from other locations in the Volta Region and the Togo Highlands ( Robbins & Van der Straeten 1996 ; Grubb et al. 1998 ). Notwithstanding the debate voiced in Granjon et al. (2012) regarding the identity of West African G. kempi , we retain the name here, due to the far southern Dahomey Gap occurrence of our single specimen from Kalakpa Resource Reserve. CONSERVATION STATUS. — Gerbilliscus kempi is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List.