Praomys rostratus (Miller, 1900)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 643

Praomys rostratus (Miller, 1900) . Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 2:637.

TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia, Mt Coffee .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded only from forest in Liberia, Mt Nimba region of Guinea, and Ivory Coast; limits unresolved.

COMMENTS: Originally described as a subspecies of tullbergi , but Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1981) distinguished rostratus from tullbergi by its greater body size, noted that both kinds were sympatric, and raised rostratus to specific rank. A similar distribution of body sizes, as well as different ecologies, were recorded by Gautun et al. (1986) from Mt Nimba, and they also separated their samples into either P. tullbergi or P. rostratus . P. rostratus is part of the murine fauna endemic to W Africa (see account of Grammomys buntingi ).