Steatomys cuppedius Thomas and Hinton 1920

Steatomys cuppedius Thomas and Hinton 1920, Novit. Zool., 27: 318.

Type Locality: Nigeria, Farniso (= Panisau), near Kano, 1700 ft (518 m).

Vernacular Names: Dainty African Fat Mouse.

Distribution: West Africa, in Senegal (Duplantier and Granjon, 1992), NC Nigeria, and SC Niger; range unresolved.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Revised by Swanepoel and Schlitter (1978), who regarded cuppedius as a distinct species, as did Rosevear (1969), not a member of S. parvus as per Coetzee (1977 a). Thomas and Hinton (1923 a) thought the holotype of aquilo from EC Sudan was related to S. cuppedius . Whether West African cuppedius represents a separate species or segment of the widely ranging S. parvus has yet to be resolved. Specimens identified as S. cuppedius from SE Ghana by Yeboah (1982 -1988) are examples of Uranomys ruddi (Grubb et al., 1998:189) .