Arvicanthis niloticus (Desmarest, 1822)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 504-560 : 509

Arvicanthis niloticus (Desmarest, 1822) . Encyclop. Method. Mamm., p. 281.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt .

DISTRIBUTION: Egypt to Sudan and Ethiopia to Senegal; E. Zaire; Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia.

COMMENT: Includes abyssiniens, blicki, lacernatus , somalicus , and testicularis; see Misonne, 1974, Part 6: 18. Includes Pelomys dembeensis ; see Dieterlen, 1974, Z. Saugetierk., 39:229-231. Dorst, 1972, Mammalia, 36: 182-192, listed blicki as a distinct species. Also see Corbet and Hill, 1980:170, who listed abyssiniens, blicki, somalicus , and testicularis as provisionally distinct species following Ellerman, 1941, The Families and Genera of Living Rodents, 2: 124-126, and Yalden et al., 1976, Monitore Zool. Ital., n.s., suppl. 8(l):44-48, who considered abyssiniens, blicki, dembeensis , and somalicus distinct species, but stated that further work is needed to resolve the status of these taxa; Rupp, 1980, Saugetierk. Mitt., 28:81-123, followed Yalden et al., 1976.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011005002001 as A. niloticus .

5301410011005001001 as A. lacernatus .

5301410011005003001 as A. somalicus .

5301410011051002001 as Pelomys dembeensis .