Lophuromys Peters, 1874

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 : 671

Genus Lophuromys Peters, 1874

In their revision of the Lophuromys genus, Verheyen et al. (1997) recorded five specimens from Mt Oku as belonging to a new species, L. dieterleni Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn & Hutterer, 1997 , and endemic to this mountain. This species is different from Mt Lefo L. eisentrauti Dieterlen, 1979 and from Mt Cameroon L. roseveari Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn & Hutterer, 1997 . The common species, L. sikapusi (Temminck, 1853) , is also reported in CVL lowland forests ( Eisentraut 1973) and could coexist with L. dieterleni on Mt Oku. We collected five Lophuromys specimens with traditional traps. Skins were in poor condition, so we limit ourselves here mostly to their skull characteristics.

FIG 8. — Ventral view of Mylomys dybowskii (Poursargues, 1893) half skull ZFMK 91.91, found by O.Fülling in owl pellets from Lake Oku cave. Scale bar: 1 mm.