Nilopegamys Osgood 1928

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1417

Nilopegamys Osgood 1928

Nilopegamys Osgood 1928 , Field Mus . Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 12: 185.

Type Species: Nilopegamys plumbeus Osgood 1928

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Nilopegamys plumbeus Osgood 1928

Discussion: Colomys Division. Described as a genus by Osgood (1928) and recognized as such by G. M. Allen (1939) and Ellerman (1941), but subsequently included in Colomys by Hayman (1966) and most checklists published after his report covering African rodents, including the revision of Colomys by Dieterlen (1983) in which plumbeus was maintained as a subspecies of C. goslingi , the allocation recommended by Hayman (1966). Kerbis Peterhans and Patterson (1995) reviewed the taxonomic history and resurrected Nilopegamys within a context of comparison with Colomys and other African muroids.