Lophuromys Peters 1874

Lophuromys Peters 1874, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin: 234.

Type Species: Lasiomys afer Peters 1866

Synonyms: Lasiomys Peters 1866; Neanthomys Toschi 1946 .

Species and subspecies: 21 species in 2 subgenera:

Subgenus Lophuromys (Lophuromys) Peters 1874

Subgenus Lophuromys (Kivumys) Dieterlen 1987

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) aquilus True 1892

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) angolensis W. Verheyen, Dierckx, and Hulselmans 2000

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) ansorgei De Winton 1896

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) brevicaudus Osgood 1936

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) brunneus Thomas 1906

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) chrysopus Osgood 1936

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) dieterleni W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn, and Hutterer 1997

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) dudui W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Dierckx, and E. Verheyen 2002

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) eisentrauti Dieterlen 1978

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) flavopunctatus Thomas 1888

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) huttereri W. Verheyen, Colyn, and Hulselmans 1996

Species Lophuromys (Kivumys) luteogaster Hatt 1934

Species Lophuromys (Kivumys) medicaudatus Dieterlen 1975

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) melanonyx F. Petter 1972

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) nudicaudus Heller 1911

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) rahmi Verheyen 1964

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) roseveari W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn, and Hutterer 1997

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) sikapusi (Temminck 1853)

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) verhageni W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Dierckx, and E. Verheyen 2002

Species Lophuromys (Kivumys) woosnami Thomas 1906

Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) zena Dollman 1909

Discussion: Because Lasiomys is preoccupied by Burmeister’s Lasiomys, Peters proposed Lophuromys with the same type species. Dieterlen (1976 b, 1987) arranged the species into subgenera Lophuromys and Kivumys; the latter apparently represents a separate monophyletic group (containing L. luteogaster, L. medicaudatus, and L. woosnami) that may eventually be elevated to generic rank. Neanthomys was based on a specimen missing the tail; see Lavrenchenko et al. (1998 b) for additional discussion and references. Most changes from the 10 or 11 species recognized by G. M. Allen (1930) and Ellerman (1941) to the five listed by Misonne (1974), the 10 in Musser and Carleton (1993), and the 21 acknowledged here result from the contributions of Dieterlen (1976 b, 1987), F. Petter (1972 d), W. Verheyen et al. (1996 a, 1997, 2000, 2002) and Lavrechenko et al. (1998 b); the overall systematic revision of Lophuromys is being continued by W. Verheyen and his colleagues and will provide future information about diversity of species in the genus, their geographic distributions, and phylogenetic relationships.