Tatera kempi Wroughton, 1906

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 : 561

Tatera kempi Wroughton, 1906 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 17:375.

TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria, Aguleri .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal and Guinea (Mt Nimba) to Cameroon.

SYNONYMS: gambiana , giffardi , hopkinsoni , welmanni.

COMMENTS: Bates (1988) listed kempi as a synonym of T. valida . With the exception of Nigeria, no specimens were examined from the range of T. kempi (including the forms synonymized here). Davis (1975a) also recognized kempi as a subspecies of T. valida , including the same synonyms listed below. Although Rosevear (1969) recognized kempi , hopkinsoni , and welmanni as separate species within West Africa, he commented that hopkinsoni and welmanni were probably only racially distinct. We separate T. kempi from T. valida and provisionally treat hopkinsoni and welmanni as synonyms, pending a critical revision. Chromosomal data were reported from samples collected in Burkina Faso ( Gautun et al., 1985, as hopkinsoni ) and Mt Nimba in Guinea ( Gautun et al., 1986, as either kempi or hopkinsoni ).