Hylomyscus stella (Thomas, 1911)

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 : 599

Hylomyscus stella (Thomas, 1911) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 7:590.

TYPE LOCALITY: E Zaire, Ituri Forest, between Mawambi and Avakubi .

DISTRIBUTION: From Gabon, Cameroon, S Nigeria, Central African Republic, S Sudan to Zaire, N Angola, Uganda, and W Kenya to EC Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda; limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: kaimosae.

COMMENTS: The new records from Sudan and N Angola are documented by specimens in the Field Museum of Natural History; those from Tanzania are in the British Museum of Natural History. Some east African samples were reviewed by Bishop (1979). Using electrophoretic traits, Iskandar et al. (1988) documented two species occurring together in NW Gabon. One is stella but they could not place a name on the other. Recognizable morphological variation exists among the samples of H. stella and its significance has to be assessed by critical systematic revision. The variation in 2N and FN among samples identified as H. stella was documented by Robbins et al. (1980) and Maddalena et al. (1989).