Lophuromys flavopunctatus Thomas, 1888

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 : 605

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scientific name	Lophuromys flavopunctatus Thomas, 1888
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Lophuromys flavopunctatus Thomas, 1888 View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888:14.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Shoa, probably Ankober (see explanation in Allen, 1939) .

DISTRIBUTION: From NE Angola throughout Zaire, Uganda, Kenya, and south through Tanzania, to Malawi, N Zambia, and N Mozambique; an isolated segment in Ethiopia. See map in Dieterlen (1976b).

SYNONYMS: aquilus , brevicaudus , brunneus , chrysopus , laticeps , major , margarettae , rita, rubecula , simensis , zaphiri , zena .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Lophuromys . Chromosomal data for sample from Burundi was reported by Maddalena et al. (1989). The appreciable character variation among samples probably reflects more than one species.