Dephomys defua (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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scientific name	Dephomys defua (Miller, 1900)
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Dephomys defua (Miller, 1900) View in CoL . Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 2:635.

TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia, Mt Coffee .

DISTRIBUTION: Specimens are from Sierra Leone, Guinea (Mt Nimbo), Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana.

COMMENTS: Part of the murine fauna endemic to W Africa (see account of Grammomys buntingi ). Taxonomy, morphology, range, and habits reviewed by Rosevear (1969) and Van der Straeten (1984).