Lophuromys Peters 1874
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Lophuromys

description: Lophuromys Peters 1874
Lophuromys Peters 1874, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin: 234.
Type Species: Lasiomys afer Peters 1866
Synonyms: Lasiomys Peters 1866; Neanthomys Toschi 1946.
Species and subspecies: 21 species in 2 subgenera:
Subgenus Lophuromys (Lophuromys) Peters 1874
Subgenus Lophuromys (Kivumys) Dieterlen 1987
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) aquilus True 1892
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) angolensis W. Verheyen, Dierckx, and Hulselmans 2000
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) ansorgei De Winton 1896
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) brevicaudus Osgood 1936
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) brunneus Thomas 1906
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) chrysopus Osgood 1936
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) dieterleni W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn, and Hutterer 1997
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) dudui W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Dierckx, and E. Verheyen 2002
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) eisentrauti Dieterlen 1978
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) flavopunctatus Thomas 1888
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) huttereri W. Verheyen, Colyn, and Hulselmans 1996
Species Lophuromys (Kivumys) luteogaster Hatt 1934
Species Lophuromys (Kivumys) medicaudatus Dieterlen 1975
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) melanonyx F. Petter 1972
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) nudicaudus Heller 1911
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) rahmi Verheyen 1964
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) roseveari W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Colyn, and Hutterer 1997
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) sikapusi (Temminck 1853)
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) verhageni W. Verheyen, Hulselmans, Dierckx, and E. Verheyen 2002
Species Lophuromys (Kivumys) woosnami Thomas 1906
Species Lophuromys (Lophuromys) zena Dollman 1909
Discussion: Because Lasiomys is preoccupied by Burmeister’s Lasiomys, Peters proposed Lophuromys with the same type species. Dieterlen (1976 b, 1987) arranged the species into subgenera Lophuromys and Kivumys; the latter apparently represents a separate monophyletic group (containing L. luteogaster, L. medicaudatus, and L. woosnami) that may eventually be elevated to generic rank. Neanthomys was based on a specimen missing the tail; see Lavrenchenko et al. (1998 b) for additional discussion and references. Most changes from the 10 or 11 species recognized by G. M. Allen (1930) and Ellerman (1941) to the five listed by Misonne (1974), the 10 in Musser and Carleton (1993), and the 21 acknowledged here result from the contributions of Dieterlen (1976 b, 1987), F. Petter (1972 d), W. Verheyen et al. (1996 a, 1997, 2000, 2002) and Lavrechenko et al. (1998 b); the overall systematic revision of Lophuromys is being continued by W. Verheyen and his colleagues and will provide future information about diversity of species in the genus, their geographic distributions, and phylogenetic relationships.
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 1189-1531 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1201, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535