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SPECIES Malacomys edwardsi

Author:Rochebrune, 1885.
Citation:Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, 9: 87.
Common Name:Edwards’ Malacomys
Type Locality:Liberia Mellacoree River (= Melikhoure River, Guinea according to Rautenbach and Schlitter, 1978:410).
Distribution:Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, and southern regions of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Member of the murine fauna endemic to West Africa (see account of Grammomys buntingi). Chromosomal data reported by Matthey (1958) and Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1979b). Grubb et al. (1998) reviewed populations from Ghana and Sierra Leone, and Barnett et al. (1996) recorded the species from the Kounounkan Massif in SW Guinea. See Happold (1987) for ecology and distribution in Nigeria.
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