Mus goundae Petter and Genest, 1970 . Mammalia, 34:455.

TYPE LOCALITY: Central African Republic, vicinity of Gounda River (Petter, 1981b, provided coordinates) .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded only from the vicinity of the type locality (see map in Jotterand, 1972); limits unknown.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Nannomys . Petter (1981 b) treated goundae as a species related to others in the M. sorella group, but the nature of that relationship remains unresolved (see account of M. sorella). Chromosomal data were reported by Jotterand (1972).