Dephomys eburnea (Heim de Balsac et Bellier, 1967)

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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scientific name	Dephomys eburnea (Heim de Balsac et Bellier, 1967)
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Dephomys eburnea (Heim de Balsac et Bellier, 1967) View in CoL . Mammalia, 31:157.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ivory Coast, Lamto .

DISTRIBUTION: Records are from Ivory Coast and Liberia.

COMMENTS: Originally described as a subspecies of defua (see discussion and references in Rosevear, 1969), but shown to be a separate species by Van der Straeten (1984). Part of the murine fauna endemic to W Africa (see account of Grammomys buntingi ). Chromosomal data reported by Tranier and Dosso (1979).