Lophuromys Peters, 1874

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 : 605

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Lophuromys Peters, 1874 View in CoL . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 234.

TYPE SPECIES: Lasiomys afer Peters, 1866 View in CoL (= Mus sikapusi Temminck, 1853 ).

SYNONYMS: Kivumys , Lasiomys ( Peters, 1866, not Burmeister, 1854), Neanthomys .

COMMENTS: Revised by Dieterlen (1976 b, 1987), who recognized two subgenera, Lophuromys and Kivumys (1987) . Related to Acomys and Uranomys (our studies; Watts, in litt.; Denys and Michaux, 1992).