Praomys hartwigi Eisentraut, 1968

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer, 2014, African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon, Zoosystema 36 (3), pp. 647-690 : 661

Praomys hartwigi Eisentraut, 1968

Praomys hartwigi Eisentraut, 1968: 8-11 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Cameroon, Mt Oku.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MNHN: 1984-495, 2011-200, 2011-201 to 2011-266, 2011-990, 2013-123 to 2013-151.

ZFMK: Eisentraut Collections: 68.7, 74.356, 69.1073, 69.1075 to 69.1079, 69.1081.

ZFMK: Fuelling collection: 91.241 to 91.248.

ZFMK: from the cave, owl pellets: 91.99, 91.171 to 91.179, 91.107, 91.180 to 91.188, 91.190 to 91.194, 91.195 to 91.198, 91.202, 91.203, 91.205, 91.206, 91.208, 91.209, 91.210, 91.211.

Morphological characters

This soft-furred rat of the so-called P. tullbergi (Thomas, 1894) complex was described from Lake Oku at about 5 km from our new records. Here it represents the most abundant rodent (34% of our captures). The 97 newly collected individuals morphologically fit well with the ZFMK paratypes. Their molecular and morphological distinctiveness towards other Praomys species of the tullbergi complex were recently confirmed ( Missoup et al. 2012).