Lophuromys sikapusi (Temminck, 1853)

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 sikapusi (Temminck, 1853)
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Lophuromys sikapusi (Temminck, 1853) View in CoL . Esquisses Zool. sur la Côte de Guine, p. 160.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana, Dabacrom .

DISTRIBUTION: From Sierra Leone through West Africa to Zaire, Uganda, and W Kenya; also in N Angola (see map in Dieterlen, 1976b:10).

SYNONYMS: afer , ansorgei , eisentrauti , manteufeli , pyrrhus , tullbergi .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Lophuromys . West African samples were reviewed by Rosevear (1969). Dieterlen (1978b) described eisentrauti as a subspecies in the Bamenda highlands of W Camaroon, but Hutterer et al. (1992) raised it to species rank. Chromosomal information summarized by Gautun et al. (1986).