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Otomys occidentalis Dieterlen & Van der Straeten, 1992 

 Bonn. zool. Beitr. 43: 386, figs. 2-A 

 Paratypes. ZFMK 69.218, female, skin and skull; Mount 

 Oku, 2100 m, Cameroon, collected by M. Eisentraut, 28 

 Jan 1967; ZFMK 88.139, ZFMK 88.140, females, skins 

 and skulls, Gangirwal, Gotel Mountains, Nigeria, collect- 

 ed by G. Nikolaus, 18 and 20 Mar 1988. 

 Current name. Otomys occidentalis Dieterlen & Van der 

 Straeten, 1992 



Comments. The holotype SMNS 41336 consists of a 

 skull, the skin is lost. 



Praomys hartwigi Eisentraut, 1968 

 Bonn. zool. Beitr. 19: 8 (10 Apr) 



Holotype. ZFMK 68.7, adult female, skin and skull; Lager 

 IV, Lake Oku, Banso Highlands, W Cameroon, collected 

 by M. Eisentraut, 24 Jan 1967, field no. 402. 

 Paratypes. ZFMK 69. 1 073, 69. 1 075, 69. 1 077 - 69. 1 079, 

 69.1081, 2 males, 4 females, skins and skulls, same lo- 

 cality and collector, 20 - 26 Jan 1967, field nos. 399, 396, 

 409, 377 a, 385, 386; ZFMK 69.1074, 69.1076, 1 male, 

 1 female, skins and skulls, Lager III, ca. 1800 m, Lake Ma- 

 nenguba, same collector, 2-A Jan 1967, field nos. 316, 323. 

 Current name. Praomys hartwigi Eisentraut, 1968. 

 Comments. One paratype (ZFMK 69.1072) was trans- 

 ferred in exchange to SMNS. 



Praomys hartwigi obscurus Hutterer & Dieterlen, 1992 

 Bonn. zool. Beitr. 43: 402, figs. 1, 2 (21 Oct) 

 Holotype. ZFMK 88.115, adult female, skin and skull; 

 Gangirwal, 2300 m, Gotel Mountains, SE Nigeria, collect- 

 ed by G. Nikolaus, 16 Mar 1988, field no. (GN5). 

 Paratypes . 1 0 specimens, ZFMK 88.114, 88.116-88.124, 

 same locality and collector as holotype, 15-20 Mar 1988; 

 6 specimens, ZFMK 88.125 - 88.130, Chappal Waddi, 

 1900 m, same collector, 21-23 Mar 1988. 

 Current name. Praomys obscurus Hutterer & Dieterlen, 

 1992 (Musser & Carleton 2005). 



Comments. Described in Hutterer, Dieterlen & Nikolaus 

 (1992). Additonal paratypes in SMNS. 



Praomys petteri Van der Straeten, Lecompte & Denys, 

 2003 



Bonn. zool. Beitr. 50: 333, figs. 2, 3 (24 Feb) 

 Paratypes. ZFMK 70.146 (male), 70.147 (female), 

 92.318 - 92.322 (2 males, 3 females), all preserved in spir- 

 it with skulls extracted; all from breeding colony of F. Pet- 

 ter (Paris), from animals collected 1968 at Boukoko, Cen- 

 tral African Republic. 



Current name. Praomys petteri Van der Straeten, 

 Lecompte & Denys, 2003. 



Comments. The specimens are from the breeding colony 

 of " P. morio" which yielded the karyoptype of 2n = 42 

 (Petter 1965). 



Rattus rattus povolnyi J. Niethammer & Martens, 1975 

 Z. Saugetierkd. 40: 344 



Holotype. ZFMK 78.001, male, skin and skull; Dar-i-Nur, 

 near Djalalabad, 1200 m, E Afghanistan, collected by J. 

 Niethammer, 18 Apr 1966, field no. A 1230. 

 Paratypes. ZFMK (not catalogued), 9 specimens, same 

 data as holotype, field nos. A 1223, A 1225, A 1229, A 

 1531, A 1534, A 1584- 1587. 



Current name. Rattus tanezumi Temminck, 1844; see 

 Musser & Carleton (2005). 



Comments. All specimens were collected in houses (field 

 notes of J. Niethammer). 



Thamnomys rutilans poensis Eisentraut, 1965 

 Zool. Jb. Syst. 92: 26, fig. 5 



Holotype. ZFMK 63.668, adult male, skin and skull; Mo- 

 ca Valley, 1200 m, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, collected by 

 M. Eisentraut, 7 Nov 1962, field no. 209 a. 

 Paratypes. ZFMK 64.484 - 64.487, females, skins and 

 skulls, field nos. 292 (29 Nov), 226 (9 Nov), 683 (3 Nov 

 1962), all same locality and collector as holotype; ZFMK 

 66.795, specimen in spirit, same locality and collector, 1 1 

 Nov 1962, field no. 229; ZFMK 64.486, skin and skull, 

 shrub willow area above Moca, ca. 1500 m, same collec- 

 tor, 11 Mar 1963, field no. 683. 



Current name. Grammomys poensis (Eisentraut, 1965). 

 Comments. Grammomys poensis replaces the better 

 known G. rutilans which is not available (Hutterer, in 

 Musser & Carleton 2005). 



Octodontidae 



Octodon pacificus Hutterer, 1996 

 Z. Saugetierkd. 59: 28, figs. 1-6 



Holotype. ZFMK 92.384, adult female, skin and skull; Is- 

 la Mocha, Arauco Province, Chile, collected by Francis- 

 co Behn, 16 Jan 1959, field no. L6. Skull lacks occipital 

 and bullae. 



Paratypes. 3 skins and skulls, ZFMK 92.383, adult fe- 

 male, and ZFMK 92.385-6, two juveniles, collected by F. 

 Behn at the type locality beween 11 and 24 Jan 1959. 

 Current name. Octodon pacificus Hutterer, 1996. 

 Comments. The species is most probably extinct, the type 

 specimens obtained in 1959 being the first and last record 

 of a living animal. A survey of mammals on Isla Mocha 

 yielded no trace of this species, however, remains were 

 found in an archaeological excavation (Saavedra et al. 

 2003). 



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