Otomys denti Thomas, 1906

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 680

Otomys denti Thomas, 1906 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 18:142.

TYPE LOCALITY: Uganda, east slope of Mount Ruwenzori, Mubuku Valley, 6000 ft (as restricted by Moreau et al., 1946:420) .

DISTRIBUTION: Intermittently found in EC Africa, from Mt. Ruwenzori, Uganda, through the Virunga volcanoes, to the Nyika Plateau of N Malawi and Zambia and to the Usambara and Uluguru mountains, EC Tanzania.

SYNONYMS: kempi , sungae.

COMMENTS: The form kempi has been treated as a distinct species (e.g., Ellerman, 1941; Thomas, 1918b); reduced to subspecific rank by Bohmann (1952) and so observed currently ( Delany, 1975; Misonne, 1974).