Tachyoryctes ankoliae Thomas, 1909

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 : 686

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scientific name	Tachyoryctes ankoliae Thomas, 1909
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Tachyoryctes ankoliae Thomas, 1909 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 4:545.

TYPE LOCALITY: S Uganda, Burumba, Ankole .

DISTRIBUTION: S Uganda; limits unknown.

COMMENTS: Recorded as a species by Swynnerton and Hayman (1951) but as a subspecies of T. splendens by Delany (1975), who nevertheless noted the cranial traits by which ankoliae could be distinguished from the adjacent ruddi .