Order Rodentia - Family Myoxidae Author Mary Ellen Holden text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 763 770 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353102 1-56098-217-9 7353102 Graphiurus parvus (True, 1893) . Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 16(95A):601 . TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya , Tana River , between the coast and Hameye . DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone , Ivory Coast , Ghana , Nigeria , Mali , Sudan , N Uganda and Kenya (see Hollister, 1919 ), Ethiopia , Somalia , Tanzania (see Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951 ). In W Africa see Rosevear (1969) . SYNONYMS: brockmani, dollmani, foxi , internus, personatus (see Allen, 1939 , for citations). COMMENTS: Schütter et al. (1985) discussed taxonomic problems associated with the small dormice occurring in savannahs, scrub, and woodlands of west, east, and southern Africa. Three species of this grade are provisionally recognized here; G. kelleni , G. olga , and G. parvus .