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 Lophuromys sikapusi (Temminck, 1853) . Esquisses Zool. sur la Côte de Guine , p. 160 . TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana , Dabacrom . DISTRIBUTION: From Sierra Leone through West Africa to Zaire , Uganda , and W Kenya ; also in N Angola (see map in Dieterlen, 1976b:10 ). SYNONYMS: afer , ansorgei , eisentrauti , manteufeli , pyrrhus , tullbergi . COMMENTS: Subgenus Lophuromys . West African samples were reviewed by Rosevear (1969) . Dieterlen (1978b) described eisentrauti as a subspecies in the Bamenda highlands of W Camaroon, but Hutterer et al. (1992) raised it to species rank. Chromosomal information summarized by Gautun et al. (1986) .