Nesomys rufus Peters, 1870 . Sitb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, p. 55.

TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar, Antsiranana Prov., Vohima .

DISTRIBUTION: Broadly distributed in N and E forest ( audeberti and rufus), and one locality in WC Madagascar ( lambertoni).

SYNONYMS: audeberti, lambertoni .

COMMENTS: Ellerman (1941, 1949a) listed audeberti and lambertoni as species as described, but Petter (1972c, 1975a) arranged them as subspecies of N. rufus . Carleton and Schmidt (1990) indicated that each will stand as a species upon revision.