Mus oubanguii Petter and Genest, 1970

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 : 627

Mus oubanguii Petter and Genest, 1970 . Mammalia, 34:454.

TYPE LOCALITY: Central African Republic, La Maboke, Ippy, Bangassou (Petter, 19816, provided coordinates) .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded only from Central African Republic (savanna north of Oubangui River); see map in Jotterand (1972:332).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Nannomys . Sympatric with M. setulosus and M. musculoides ( Petter and Genest, 1970) , but a phylogenetic member of the M. sorella group, according to Petter (19816), who also noted that its morphology, except for a dental trait, is similar to that of M. neavei (see that account). Chromosomal information, in context of understanding chromosomal evolution among species of African Mus , was documented by Jotterand (1972) and Jotterand-Bellomo (1984, 1986).