Cricetomys, Waterhouse, 1840

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 : 672

Cricetomys sp.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MNHN: 2011-900, 2011-901, 2013-38;

ZFMK: 69.229, 92.171 (skull), Lake Oku , 29.01.1967 ;

ZFMK: owl pellets cave Lake Oku: 91.218

Morphological characters

Three adult males were trapped with traditional traps (two in 2006 and one in 2008). They fit within the size range variation of C. emini Wroughton, 1910 sensu lato of Cameroon and East Nigeria for their HB length, but have a proportionally smaller tail length ( Table 6). Their hindfeet and ear length measurements fit well within the variability of C. emini s.l. (Genest-Villard 1967; Rosevear 1969). The recent molecular and morphometrical revision of Olayemi et al. (2012) highlighted an unexpected diversity in Cricetomys , and included the specimens collected in Mt Kupe ( Denys et al. 2009) and Mt Manengouba ( Missoup 2010) in a new clade named “ Cricetomys sp. 3”. Our specimens fit within the range values for specimens collected by Eisentraut (1973) on Kupe, Manenguba and Oku and may belong to the same undescribed clade.