Steatomys jacksoni Hayman, 1936

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 : 545

Steatomys jacksoni Hayman, 1936 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1935:930 [1936].

TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana, Ashanti, Wenchi .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from type locality and SW Nigeria.

COMMENTS: This species was known only by the holotype, but a few specimens have been recorded from SW Nigeria ( Anadu, 1979), and earlier Rosevear (1969) had suggested that two young animals from Wulehe, Togo, might be examples of S. jacksoni . Included in S. pratensis by Coetzee (1977a), but retained as a species by Swanepoel and Schütter (1978), who preferred to recognize it until significance of the diagnostic character (size and shape of interparietal) could be assessed by additional specimens.