Lophuromys nudicaudus Heller, 1911

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 : 606

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scientific name	Lophuromys nudicaudus Heller, 1911
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Lophuromys nudicaudus Heller, 1911 View in CoL . Smithson. Mise. Coll., 56(17):11.

TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon, Buia country, Efulen .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded from W Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (incl. Bioko = Fernando Poo), and Gabon (see map in Dieterlen, 1978b).

SYNONYMS: naso .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Lophuromys . Included in L. sikapusi by Misonne (1974), but is a distinct species (see discussion in Rosevear, 1969). Dieterlen (1978b) explained why naso is a synonym. The karyotype of specimens from Cameroon was described by Verheyen and Van der Straeten (1980).