Lophuromys melanonyx Petter, 1972 . Mammalia, 36:177.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Bale Dist, Dinshu .

DISTRIBUTION: S and C Ethiopia, west of the Ethiopian Rift Valley (Dieterlen, 1987) and east of the Rift Valley in the Bale Mtns, 3100-4050 m.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Lophuromys . Endemic to Afro-alpine moorland of Ethiopia where it shares habitat with the other moorland specialists Stenocephalemys albocaudata, Arvicanthis blicki, Tachyoryctes macrocephalus, and Otomys typus (Demeter and Topal, 1982; Rupp, 1980; Yalden, 1988; Yalden et al., 1976).