Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran, 1855)

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 : 637

Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran, 1855) . Revue Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 2, 7:206.

TYPE LOCALITY: Gabon .

DISTRIBUTION: Tropical forest block from S Nigeria south to N Angola, and east across Zaire (incl. islands of Zaire river between Kisangani and Kinshasa; Colyn and Dudu, 1986) to Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda; isolated forest patches in S Sudan, SW Ethiopia, Kenya and W Tanzania (see section of map east of Ghana in Dieterlen and Rupp, 1976).

SYNONYMS: albiventris, anchietae , bacchante, editus, marungensis, moerens, oris; rufinus ( Matschie, 1895, not Temminck, 1855), talangae, unyori, vallicola.

COMMENTS: Another African species showing appreciable geographic variation in fur color and body size ( Dieterlen and Rupp, 1976; Thomas, 1915). Chromosomal data reported by Matthey (1963, 1967) and Maddalena et al. (1989). Closest phylogenetic relative is probably Thamnomys ( Hatt, 1940a) .