Mus callewaerti (Thomas, 1925)

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 : 622

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scientific name	Mus callewaerti (Thomas, 1925)
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Mus callewaerti (Thomas, 1925) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 15:668.

TYPE LOCALITY: S Zaire, Lualaba, Luluabourg, 610 m .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded only from N and C Angola, S and W Zaire; limits unknown.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Nannomys . Thomas described this species as a member of the genus Hylenomys , which is now united with Mus ( Hill and Carter, 1941; Misonne, 1965). It is the largest-bodied of any of the African Mus ( Petter and Matthey, 1975) , has ivory incisors and very large auditory bullae, and in external features resembles M. triton , which misled Hatt (1940«) into treating callewaerti as a subspecies of triton . Misonne (1965) summarized distributional and other information.