Paraphiomys, Antoñanzas & Sen & Mein, 2004

Antoñanzas, Raquel López, Sen, Sevket & Mein, Pierre, 2004, Systematics and phylogeny of the cane rats (Rodentia: Thryonomyidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 142, pp. 423-444 : 434

PARAPHIOMYS CHORORENSIS GERAADS, 1998

The holotype of this species (NMAA CHO 1; Fig. 4I) was described and illustrated by Jaeger et al. (1980: 367). It is an incomplete maxilla with P4-M2 ( Jaeger et al., 1980: fig. 1a) from the Upper Miocene of Ch’orora, Ethiopia ( Tiercelin, Michaux & Bandet, 1979; Jaeger et al., 1980). Additional material was found later in the same locality ( Geraads, 1998, 2001: 104) ( Fig. 4J) and from the Upper Miocene of the lower member of the Nawata Formation, Lothagam, Kenya ( Winkler, 2003).

The generic attribution of this species was rejected by de Bruijn (1986: 131) who reallocated it to Neosciuromys . Nevertheless, the phylogenetic analysis conducted by Winkler (1992) and Flynn & Winkler (1994) advocates that P. johanesi is the sister species of P. indicus , type species of the genus ( Black, 1972), not Neosciuromys africanus .

The differences between this species and P. indicus have been discussed above.