Dasymys rufulus Miller, 1900

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 : 590

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Dasymys rufulus Miller, 1900 View in CoL . Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 2:639.

TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia, Mount Coffee .

DISTRIBUTION: Specimen records are from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, E Nigeria, and Cameroon.

SYNONYMS: longipilosus .

COMMENTS: Morphometric and geographic contrasts with D. foxi presented by Carleton and Martinez (1991). Relationships with populations from Zaire and elsewhere now treated as D. incomtus bentleyae need to be clarified by critical systematic revision.