Colomys goslingi Thomas and Wroughton, 1907 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 19:380.

TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire, Uele River, Gambi .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded from Liberia (Lofa), Cameroon, NE Angola, NW Zambia, Zaire, Ruanda, Uganda, E Kenya, S Sudan, and W Ethiopia; limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: bicolor, denti, eisentrauti, plumbeus, ruandensis.

COMMENTS: Study of external, cranial, and dental variation in context of taxonomic revision was provided by Dieterlen (1983). Colomys goslingi is a carnivore preying on limnetic macroinvertebrates and small vertebrates, and possesses special morphological and neurological adaptations as well as behavioral repitoire that are correlated with extracting such a diet from streams (Dieterlen and Statzner, 1981; Stephan and Dieterlen, 1982). The species is apparently restricted to banks of small flowing streams in tropical rain forest (Dieterlen, 1983), although it has been taken along streams in grassland far from forest (Hayman, 1966). Comparisons with Neotropical ichthyomyines provided by Voss (1988).