Hylomyscus Thomas, 1926 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 17:174.

TYPE SPECIES: Epimys aeta Thomas, 1911 .

COMMENTS: Taxonomic, distributional, and biological summaries of West African forms provided by Rosevear (1969). Morphometric, distributional, and chromosomal data for some species in Camaroon reported by Robbins et al. (1980). Species from Ivory Coast reviewed by Heim de Balsac and Aellen (1965). Distributions of species listed below based primarily on study of museum specimens. See Rosevear (1969) and Robbins et al. (1980) for taxonomic history of the alternating use of Hylomyscus as a genus or subgenus.