African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon Author Denys, Christiane Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systematique et Évolution, Institut de Systématique Évolution et Biodiversité, UMR 7205, CNRS EPHE Paris VI, case postale 51, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) denys @ mnhn. fr denys@mnhn.fr Author Missoup, Alain Didier Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systematique et Évolution, Institut de Systématique Évolution et Biodiversité, UMR 7205, CNRS EPHE Paris VI case postale 51, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) et Département de Biologie des Organismes Animaux, Université de Douala, Douala (Cameroon) Author Nicolas, Violaine Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systematique et Évolution, Institut de Systématique Évolution et Biodiversité, UMR 7205, CNRS EPHE Paris VI, case postale 51, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53133 Bonn (Germany) Author Fülling, Olaf Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53133 Bonn (Germany) Author Delapré, Arnaud Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systematique et Évolution, Institut de Systématique Évolution et Biodiversité, UMR 7205, CNRS EPHE Paris VI, case postale 51, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) Author Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé (Cameroon) Author Taylor, Peter John J. South African Research Chairs Initiative Chair on Biodiversity and Environmental Change and Core Team Member of Centre for Invasion Biology, University of Venda, P. Bag X 5050, Thohoyandou 0950 (South Africa) Author Hutterer, Rainer Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53133 Bonn (Germany) text Zoosystema 2014 2014-09-26 36 3 647 690 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5252/z2014n3a6 journal article 10.5252/z2014n3a6 1638-9387 4539596 Dendromus sp. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MNHN :2011-910 to 2011-912. Morphological characters Three specimens were trapped in Oku above 2000 m . Dendromus was not yet reported on Mt Oku by Eisentraut (1973) or Fülling (1992) . Size comparison shows that, compared to Rosevear (1969) , the Oku new representatives have a longer HF of 20-21 mm length, compared to 16-18 mm length for D. messorius ( Table 11 ; Denys & Aniskine 2012 ).Molecular analyses suggested the specific distinctiveness of Mt Oku specimens (Voelker et al. pers. comm.).