Tachyoryctes splendens (Rüppell, 1835)

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 : 687

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scientific name	Tachyoryctes splendens (Rüppell, 1835)
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Tachyoryctes splendens (Rüppell, 1835) . Neue wirbelt. Fauna Abyssin. Gehörig., Säugeth., 1:36.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Dembea Prov, Gondar .

DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia (500-3900 m; Rupp, 1980), Somalia, and NW Kenya; limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: canicaudus , cheesmani , gallarum, ibeanus , omensis, pontifex, somalicus .

COMMENTS: Yalden et al. (1976) claimed that the synonyms (except for ibeanus ) listed here clearly apply to one species. Osgood (1936), however, noted that two species, splendens and cheesmani , could be distinguished among the Ethiopian samples he examined. We include ibeanus because it is geographically close to the range of T. splendens and was originally described as a subspecies of that species (see Allen, 1939). Hollister (1919) identified series from SE Kenya as T. ibeanus .