Otomys anchietae Bocage, 1882 . J. Sci. Acad. Lisbon, 9:26.

TYPE LOCALITY: Angola, Huila, Caconda .

DISTRIBUTION: Isolated segments in C Angola, SW Tanzania, N Malawi, and W Kenya.

SYNONYMS: barbouri, lacustris .

COMMENTS: Type species of Anchotomys, employed as a subgenus of Otomys by Thomas (1918b). Believed to be closely related to O. irroratus (Bohmann, 1952), if not conspecific with it (Petter, 1982). Dieterlen and Van der Straeten (1992) treated barbouri and lacustris as separate species.