Myomys ruppi (Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1983)

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 : 631

Myomys ruppi (Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1983) . Annis. Mus. R. Afr. C., 237:121.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Bonke, north of Bulta, 2800-3200 m .

DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia; known only from Bonke and Bulta in the Gamo Gofa region of SW Ethiopia, 2700-3200 m.

COMMENTS: Originally described as a species of Praomys (see Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1983) based on material collected by Rupp (1980), who illustrated the skull as " Praomys albipes , stenocephaler Typ" (p. 92). M. ruppi combines morphological features of both M. albipes and Stenocephalemys , an observation reinforced by morphometric analyses ( Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1983). Were it not for the long tail of M. ruppi (a trait shared with M. albipes ), the species could as easily be included within Stenocephalemys .