Acomys cineraceus Fitzinger and Heuglin, 1866

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 : 565

Acomys cineraceus Fitzinger and Heuglin, 1866 . Sitzb. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 54:573.

TYPE LOCALITY: WC Sudan, Doka, E Sennaar ( Allen, 1939:364) .

DISTRIBUTION: From N Ghana and Burkina Faso through N Togo, N Benin, S Niger, and N Nigeria to C and S Sudan, N Uganda, and C and S Ethiopia (specimens in the National Museum of Natural History).

SYNONYMS: cinerascens , hawashensis, hystrella , intermedius , johannis , lowei , witherbyi .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Acomys . Dieterlen (in litt.) noted that A. cineraceus is a distinct species and one of four (A. wilsoni , A. percivali , and A. cahirinus ) occurring in Sudan. Petter (1983) recognized witherbyi as a species, and reported that it coexists with a member of the cahirinus-dimidiatus complex in Sudan. In morphology, A. cineraceus is closely similar to A. kempi ; systematic revision would reveal whether each is a species, or simply represents a population of one species.