Nesomys rufus Peters, 1870

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 679

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Nesomys rufus Peters, 1870 . Sitb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, p. 55.

TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar, Antsiranana Prov., Vohima .

DISTRIBUTION: Broadly distributed in N and E forest ( audeberti and rufus ), and one locality in WC Madagascar ( lambertoni ).

SYNONYMS: audeberti , lambertoni .

COMMENTS: Ellerman (1941, 1949a) listed audeberti and lambertoni as species as described, but Petter (1972c, 1975a) arranged them as subspecies of N. rufus . Carleton and Schmidt (1990) indicated that each will stand as a species upon revision.