Oenomys hypoxanthus (Pucheran, 1855) . Revue Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 2, 7:206.

TYPE LOCALITY: Gabon .

DISTRIBUTION: Tropical forest block from S Nigeria south to N Angola, and east across Zaire (incl. islands of Zaire river between Kisangani and Kinshasa; Colyn and Dudu, 1986) to Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda; isolated forest patches in S Sudan, SW Ethiopia, Kenya and W Tanzania (see section of map east of Ghana in Dieterlen and Rupp, 1976).

SYNONYMS: albiventris, anchietae, bacchante, editus, marungensis, moerens, oris; rufinus (Matschie, 1895, not Temminck, 1855), talangae, unyori, vallicola.

COMMENTS: Another African species showing appreciable geographic variation in fur color and body size (Dieterlen and Rupp, 1976; Thomas, 1915). Chromosomal data reported by Matthey (1963, 1967) and Maddalena et al. (1989). Closest phylogenetic relative is probably Thamnomys (Hatt, 1940a) .