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 Mus goundae Petter and Genest, 1970 . Mammalia, 34:455 . TYPE LOCALITY: Central African Republic , vicinity of Gounda River ( Petter, 1981b , provided coordinates) . DISTRIBUTION: Recorded only from the vicinity of the type locality (see map in Jotterand, 1972 ); limits unknown. COMMENTS: Subgenus Nannomys . Petter (1981 b) treated goundae as a species related to others in the M. sorella group, but the nature of that relationship remains unresolved (see account of M. sorella ). Chromosomal data were reported by Jotterand (1972) .