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)
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755
book chapter
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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)
.