Grammomys poensis Eisentraut, 1965

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer, 2014, African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon, Zoosystema 36 (3), pp. 647-690 : 667

Grammomys poensis Eisentraut, 1965

Grammomys poensis Eisentraut, 1965: 26 .

Mus rutilans Peters, 1876: 478 .

Grammomys rutilans – Musser & Carleton 1993: 594.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Equatorial Guinea, Moca, Bioko.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MNHN: 2011-916, 2011-918, 2011-920, 2011-921, SPOT 10143.

ZFMK: 69.207, 69.206.

Morphological characters

The species name rutilans used by Eisentraut (1968) for some specimens of Mt Oku is no longer valid and has been replaced by poensis ( Musser & Carleton 2005) . We collected five new specimens fitting well with the holotype of G. poensis described by Eisentraut (1965) from Bioko ( Table 8). The adult females examined (n = 3) all possessed a mammary formula of 0 + 2. Grammonys poensis is present all over the CVL mountains of Cameroon from Mt Oku to Mt Cameroon, as well as in Bioko ( Eisentraut 1973), Mt Kupe ( Denys et al. 2009) and Mamfé ( Sanderson 1940).