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SPECIES Eliurus ellermani

Author:Carleton, 1994.
Citation:Am. Mus. Novit., 3087: 39.
Common Name:Ellerman’s Tufted-tailed Rat
Type Locality:Madagascar, Toamasina Prov., near Hiaraka, about 18 km ESE Maroantsetra, 850 m; about 15º30′S, 49º56′E (as amended by Carleton and Goodman, 1998:181).
Distribution:Known only from two widely separated localities in NE Madagascar.
Comments:Status uncertain; provisionally retained as distinct from the morphologically similar E. tanala (see Carleton and Goodman, 1998).
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