Malacomys edwardsi Rochebrune, 1885

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 : 607

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scientific name	Malacomys edwardsi Rochebrune, 1885
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Malacomys edwardsi Rochebrune, 1885 View in CoL . 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).