Brachytarsomys albicauda Günther, 1875 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875:80.

TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar, between "Tamatave and Morondava."

DISTRIBUTION: E Madagascar rain forest at middle elevations.

SYNONYMS: villosa .

COMMENTS: The indeterminate nature of Günther's (1875) type locality might be restricted with archival research since the species occurs only in the east. Carleton and Schmidt (1990) suggested that villosa, named as a subspecies by F. Petter (1962a) based on a zoo specimen, is a distinct species; its geographic occurrence is unknown.