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 Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse, 1840 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840:2 . TYPE LOCALITY: Gambia , River Gambia . DISTRIBUTION: Savannah and forest edges from Senegal and Sierra Leone east to S Sudan and N Uganda ; southwards, exclusive of Congo forest block, to S Angola , S Zambia , and E Natal, South Africa . SYNONYMS: adventor, ansorgei , buchanani , cunctator, cosensi , dichrurus , dissimilis, elgonis, enguvi, goliath , grattami, haagneri, kenyensis, langi, microtis , oliviae, osgoodi , selindensis, servorum , vaughanjonesi, viator .