Lophuromys flavopunctatus Thomas, 1888 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888:14.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Shoa, probably Ankober (see explanation in Allen, 1939) .

DISTRIBUTION: From NE Angola throughout Zaire, Uganda, Kenya, and south through Tanzania, to Malawi, N Zambia, and N Mozambique; an isolated segment in Ethiopia. See map in Dieterlen (1976b).

SYNONYMS: aquilus, brevicaudus, brunneus, chrysopus, laticeps, major, margarettae, rita, rubecula, simensis, zaphiri, zena .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Lophuromys . Chromosomal data for sample from Burundi was reported by Maddalena et al. (1989). The appreciable character variation among samples probably reflects more than one species.