Dendromus, Smith, 1829

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 : 676

Dendromus sp.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MNHN:2011-910 to 2011-912.

Morphological characters

Three specimens were trapped in Oku above 2000 m. Dendromus was not yet reported on Mt Oku by Eisentraut (1973) or Fülling (1992). Size comparison shows that, compared to Rosevear (1969), the Oku new representatives have a longer HF of 20-21 mm length, compared to 16-18 mm length for D. messorius ( Table 11; Denys & Aniskine 2012).Molecular analyses suggested the specific distinctiveness of Mt Oku specimens (Voelker et al. pers. comm.).