Grammomys Thomas, 1915

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 : 592

Grammomys Thomas, 1915 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8,16:150.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus dolichurus Smuts, 1832 .

COMMENTS: A distinctive genus as asserted by Ellerman (1941) and other workers (e.g., Hutterer and Dieterlen, 1984; Rosevear, 1969), and unrelated to Thamnomys with which it has often been united as a subgenus ( Allen, 1939; Hatt, 1940fe; Hollister, 1919; Misonne, 1974; Petter and Tranier, 1975). Partly reviewed by Petter and Tranier (1975) and Hutterer and Dieterlen (1984), who provided morphological, distributional, and chromosomal comparisons. Morphological and chromosomal similarities exist with Thallomys ( Olert et al., 1978) .