Malacomys edwardsi Rochebrune, 1885 . Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, 9:87.

TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia (= Rep. of Guinea), Mellacoree (= Melikhoure) River .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, and southern regions of Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Nigeria.

COMMENTS: Part of the murine fauna endemic to West Africa (see account of Grammomys buntingi). Chromosomal data reported by Matthey (1958) and Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1979b).