Graphiurus Smuts, 1832

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Sylla, Morlaye, Douno, Mory, Kadjo, Blaise, Lalis, Aude & Monadjem, Ara, 2025, Annotated checklist of rodents from a biodiversity hotspot, Mount Nimba (West Africa), Zoosystema 47 (27), pp. 617-689 : 651-652

Genus Graphiurus Smuts, 1832

REMARKS

Heim de Balsac & Lamotte (1958) collected three different species: G. hueti Roquebrune 1883 , G. spurelli Dollman, 1912 and G. crassicaudatus ( Jentink, 1888) . Different revisions of the genus have shown that G. spurelli is a synonym of G. lorraineus Dollman, 1910 and is present on Mount Nimba ( Holden 2005) . Graphiurus hueti has been put in synonymy with G. nagtglasii Jentink, 1888 and was described from Liberia. Graphiurus lorraineus is relatively common through the whole West and Central Africa and is characterized by a uniform grey pelage color. Graphiurus natglasii and G. crassicaudatus are larger in size and do not correspond to our newly collected specimens. The genus is in urgent need of revision.

Misonne & Verschuren (1976) and Coe (1975) indicated the presence of two species on the Liberian side of the mountain with G. hueti (identified as G. natglasii ) and G. lorraineus . Mamba et al. (2021) recorded also the same two species on Mount Ziama. We collected a few new specimens of these rodents and examined the old Lamotte collection.