Praomys hartwigi Eisentraut, 1968 . Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 19:8 -11.
TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon, Lake Oku .
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality and Gotel Mtns in Nigeria (Hutterer et al., 1992; Nikolaus and Dowsett, 1989).
SYNONYMS: obscurus .
COMMENTS: Still recorded only by a few specimens (Misonne, 1974; Nikolaus and Dowsett, 1989).