Acomys wilsoni Thomas, 1892

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 : 567

Acomys wilsoni Thomas, 1892 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 10:22.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Mombasa .

DISTRIBUTION: S Sudan, S Ethiopia, S Somalia, Kenya, and south to EC Tanzania (Kondoa; specimens in the American Museum of Natural History); limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: ablutus , argillaceus, boronei, enid, nubilus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Acomys . Formerly included in subspinosus by Setzer (1975) but considered a species by Hollister (1919), Ellerman (1941), Matthey (1968), Yalden et al. (1976), Rupp (1980), Petter and Roche (1981), Petter (1983), and Corbet and Hill (1991). Genically most similar to A. percivali ( Janecek et al., 1991) . Specimens of nubilus are larger and longer-tailed than wilsoni and may represent a separate species; de Beaux's (1934) description of boronei recalls nubilus.