Lophuromys sikapusi (Temminck, 1853) . Esquisses Zool. sur la Côte de Guine, p. 160.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana, Dabacrom .

DISTRIBUTION: From Sierra Leone through West Africa to Zaire, Uganda, and W Kenya; also in N Angola (see map in Dieterlen, 1976b:10).

SYNONYMS: afer, ansorgei, eisentrauti, manteufeli, pyrrhus, tullbergi .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Lophuromys . West African samples were reviewed by Rosevear (1969). Dieterlen (1978b) described eisentrauti as a subspecies in the Bamenda highlands of W Camaroon, but Hutterer et al. (1992) raised it to species rank. Chromosomal information summarized by Gautun et al. (1986).