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 Malacomys edwardsi Rochebrune, 1885 . Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, 9:87 . TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia (= Rep. of Guinea ), Mellacoree (= Melikhoure) River . DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone , Guinea , Liberia , and southern regions of Ivory Coast , Ghana , and Nigeria . COMMENTS: Part of the murine fauna endemic to West Africa (see account of Grammomys buntingi ). Chromosomal data reported by Matthey (1958) and Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1979b) .