Stochomys longicaudatus (Tullberg, 1893)

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 : 666

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scientific name	Stochomys longicaudatus (Tullberg, 1893)
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Stochomys longicaudatus (Tullberg, 1893) View in CoL . Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsala, ser. 3, 16:36.

TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon .

DISTRIBUTION: Tropical evergreen forest; recorded from Togo, S Nigeria, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire, and Uganda.

SYNONYMS: hypoleucus (Pucheran, 1855, not Sundevall), ituricus, sebastianus .

COMMENTS: Rosevear (1969) described the historical allocations of longicaudatus to Aethomys , Dasymys , Epimys , Mus , Rattus , and Stochomys . Morphometric analyses, which resulted in distinguishing two distinct subspecies, reported by Van der Straeten (1984).