Lophuromys Peters, 1874 . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 234.

TYPE SPECIES: Lasiomys afer Peters, 1866 (= Mus sikapusi Temminck, 1853).

SYNONYMS: Kivumys, Lasiomys (Peters, 1866, not Burmeister, 1854), Neanthomys .

COMMENTS: Revised by Dieterlen (1976 b, 1987), who recognized two subgenera, Lophuromys and Kivumys (1987) . Related to Acomys and Uranomys (our studies; Watts, in litt.; Denys and Michaux, 1992).