Thamnomys kempi Dollman, 1911

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 : 669-670

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scientific name	Thamnomys kempi Dollman, 1911
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Thamnomys kempi Dollman, 1911 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 8:658.

TYPE LOCALITY: E Zaire, Buhamba, near Lake Kivu, 6000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: E Zaire, W Uganda, and NW Burundi; a montane Western Rift Valley endemic.

SYNONYMS: major .

COMMENTS: A distinctive species as listed by Allen (1939) and Ellerman (1941), not a subspecies of T. venustus . Both species are sympatric at Kibati in E Zaire (documented by specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard).