Otomys anchietae Bocage, 1882

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 680

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scientific name	Otomys anchietae Bocage, 1882
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Otomys anchietae Bocage, 1882 View in CoL . J. Sci. Acad. Lisbon, 9:26.

TYPE LOCALITY: Angola, Huila, Caconda .

DISTRIBUTION: Isolated segments in C Angola, SW Tanzania, N Malawi, and W Kenya.

SYNONYMS: barbouri , lacustris .

COMMENTS: Type species of Anchotomys , employed as a subgenus of Otomys by Thomas (1918b). Believed to be closely related to O. irroratus ( Bohmann, 1952) , if not conspecific with it ( Petter, 1982). Dieterlen and Van der Straeten (1992) treated barbouri and lacustris as separate species.