Lophuromys melanonyx Petter, 1972

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 melanonyx Petter, 1972
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Lophuromys melanonyx Petter, 1972 View in CoL . Mammalia, 36:177.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Bale Dist, Dinshu .

DISTRIBUTION: S and C Ethiopia, west of the Ethiopian Rift Valley ( Dieterlen, 1987) and east of the Rift Valley in the Bale Mtns, 3100-4050 m.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Lophuromys . Endemic to Afro-alpine moorland of Ethiopia where it shares habitat with the other moorland specialists Stenocephalemys albocaudata , Arvicanthis blicki , Tachyoryctes macrocephalus, and Otomys typus ( Demeter and Topal, 1982; Rupp, 1980; Yalden, 1988; Yalden et al., 1976).