Otomys F. Cuvier, 1824

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 : 670

Genus Otomys F. Cuvier, 1824

Two species of this genus have been recorded in the CVL. The first one, Otomys occidentalis Dieterlen & Van der Straeten, 1992 , is known only from Gotel Mountains (type locality), East Nigeria and Mt Oku. The second one, O. burtoni Thomas, 1918 , is endemic to Mt Cameroon ( Musser & Carleton 2005). Fülling (1992) illustrated the differences in the palatal ridges disposition between O. occidentalis from Oku and O. burtoni from Mt Cameroon. Both species are genetically distinct ( Taylor et al. 2014).