Thryonomys logani

Antoñanzas, Raquel López, Sen, Sevket & Mein, Pierre, 2004, Systematics and phylogeny of the cane rats (Rodentia: Thryonomyidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 142, pp. 423-444 : 426

THRYONOMYS LOGANI ROMER ET NESBITT, 1930

Romer & Nesbitt (1930) used a nearly complete skull and skeleton of an adult individual, and an incomplete skull and palate of a young individual, both from a Neolithic site in central Sahara ( Algeria), to coin the species Thryonomys logani . Unfortunately, these authors could only compare this material with a skull and a skeleton of T. swinderianus ( Romer & Nesbitt, 1930: 688) . Subsequent studies and more exhaustive comparisons of the specimens of T. logani with T. swinderianus have revealed that the former is a junior synonym of the latter ( Monod, 1970: 547). This synonymy has been accepted by Misonne (1971) and by the present authors. The differences between T. logani and T. swinderianus found by Romer & Nesbitt (1930) are definitely a consequence of the paucity of comparative material available to them.