Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 1189 1531 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran 1855) [Mus] hypoxanthus Pucheran 1855 , Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 2, 7: 206 . Type Locality: Gabon . Vernacular Names: Common Oenomys . Synonyms: Oenomys albiventris Eisentraut 1968 ; Oenomys anchietae (Bocage 1890) ; Oenomys bacchante ( Thomas 1903 ) ; Oenomys editus Thomas and Wroughton 1910 ; Oenomys marungensis ( Noack 1887 ) ; Oenomys moerens Thomas 1911 ; Oenomys oris Thomas 1911 ; Oenomys rufinus ( Matschie 1895 ) ; Oenomys talangae Setzer 1956 ; Oenomys unyori ( Thomas 1903 ) ; Oenomys vallicola Heller 1914 . Distribution: Tropical forest block from S Nigeria south to W and NE Angola ( Crawford-Cabral, 1998 ), and east across Dem. Rep. Congo (incl. islands of Zaire River between Kisangani and Kinshasa ; Colyn and Dudu, 1986 ) to Rwanda , Burundi , and Uganda ; also isolated forest patches in S Sudan , SW Ethiopia ( Yalden et al., 1996 ), Kenya and W Tanzania (see section of map east of Ghana in Dieterlen and Rupp, 1976 ). Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient. Discussion: Another African species showing appreciable geographic variation in fur color and body size ( Dieterlen and Rupp, 1976 ; Rosevear, 1969 ; Thomas, 1915 ). Chromosomal data reported by Matthey (1963 , 1967 a ) and Maddalena et al. (1989) . Palatal ridges of sample from Mount Oku described and contrasted with Lamottemys okuensis (Fülling, 1992). Altitudinal distribution on Ugandan slopes of Ruwenzori Mtns reviewed by Kerbis Peterhans et al. (1998) .