Colomys goslingi Thomas and Wroughton, 1907

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 : 586

Colomys goslingi Thomas and Wroughton, 1907 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 19:380.

TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire, Uele River, Gambi .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded from Liberia (Lofa), Cameroon, NE Angola, NW Zambia, Zaire, Ruanda, Uganda, E Kenya, S Sudan, and W Ethiopia; limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: bicolor , denti , eisentrauti , plumbeus , ruandensis.

COMMENTS: Study of external, cranial, and dental variation in context of taxonomic revision was provided by Dieterlen (1983). Colomys goslingi is a carnivore preying on limnetic macroinvertebrates and small vertebrates, and possesses special morphological and neurological adaptations as well as behavioral repitoire that are correlated with extracting such a diet from streams ( Dieterlen and Statzner, 1981; Stephan and Dieterlen, 1982). The species is apparently restricted to banks of small flowing streams in tropical rain forest ( Dieterlen, 1983), although it has been taken along streams in grassland far from forest ( Hayman, 1966). Comparisons with Neotropical ichthyomyines provided by Voss (1988).