Stenocephalemys griseicauda F. Petter 1972

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 : 1501

Stenocephalemys griseicauda F. Petter 1972

Stenocephalemys griseicauda F. Petter 1972 , Mammalia, 36: 171.

Type Locality: Ethiopia, Bale Mtns, Dinsho.

Vernacular Names: Gray-tailed Stenocephalemys.

Distribution: Ethiopia; S and N highlands, 2400-3900 m ( Demeter and Topal, 1982; Yalden, 1988; Yalden and Largen, 1992).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Another Ethiopian mountain endemic that overlaps altitudinally with S. albocaudata but occupies bushy areas rather than moorland ( Yalden, 1988). Chromosomal data documented by Corti et al. (1999) and Lavrenchenko et al. (1999). Distribution in isolated Harenna Forest of S Ethiopia documented by Lavrenchenko (2000). Yalden et al. (19965) cited Schlitter as collecting this species and S. albocaudata on Mt Entoto north of Addis Ababa, which would be west of the Rift Valley, but those records have yet to be documented by publication.