Oenomys ornatus Thomas, 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 : 637

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scientific name	Oenomys ornatus Thomas, 1911
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Oenomys ornatus Thomas, 1911 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 7:378.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana, Bibianaha, near Dunkwa .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Guinea (Mt Nimba) to Ghana.

COMMENTS: Originally described by Thomas (19116) as a distinct species, and subsequently either listed that way ( Allen, 1939; Ellerman, 1941) or included in hypoxanthus ( Misonne, 1974) . Rosevear (1969), however, recognized ornatus as a very distinctive subspecies of O. hypoxanthus , and Tranier and Gautun (1979) reinstated its specific uniqueness diagnosed by chromosomal, morphological, and distributional attributes.