Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse, 1840 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840:2.

TYPE LOCALITY: Gambia, River Gambia .

DISTRIBUTION: Savannah and forest edges from Senegal and Sierra Leone east to S Sudan and N Uganda; southwards, exclusive of Congo forest block, to S Angola, S Zambia, and E Natal, South Africa.

SYNONYMS: adventor, ansorgei, buchanani, cunctator, cosensi, dichrurus, dissimilis, elgonis, enguvi, goliath, grattami, haagneri, kenyensis, langi, microtis, oliviae, osgoodi, selindensis, servorum, vaughanjonesi, viator .