Dendromus Smith, 1829

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 : 675

Genus Dendromus Smith, 1829

The genus awaits a complete revision. According to Musser & Carleton (2005) and Eisentraut (1968), the Cameroon fauna has yielded Dendromus messorius Thomas, 1903 , whose holotype comes from Efulen.It is a typical inhabitant of tropical lowlands forests,and is also found in Mt Kupe ( Denys et al. 2009). Another species, Dendromus oreas Osgood, 1936 ,is endemic to Mt Cameroon. Denys & Aniskine (2012) recognized that D. messorius is probably a species complex and these authors highlighted the differences between D. messorius , D. oreas and the specimens collected from Mt Oku which may represent a new taxon.