Praomys Thomas, 1915

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer, 2014, African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon, Zoosystema 36 (3), pp. 647-690 : 661

Genus Praomys Thomas, 1915

Two species of Praomys : P. hartwigi Eisentraut, 1968 and P. jacksoni (de Winton, 1897) have already been observed on Mt Oku by Fülling (1992), while Hutterer et al. (1992) also reported P. obscurus Hutterer & Dieterlen, 1992 in the northeast of Bamenda Plateau (Gotel Mountains and Mambilla plateau). The standard external measurements for the new specimens are presented in Table 6.