Praomys misonnei Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1987

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 643

Praomys misonnei Van der Straeten and Dieterlen, 1987 . Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk. ser. A, 402:3.

TYPE LOCALITY: E Zaire, Kivu region , Irangi .

DISTRIBUTION: N and E Zaire.

COMMENTS: Sympatric with P. jacksoni at the type locality and with P. jacksoni and P. mutoni in Haut-Zaïre ( Van der Straeten and Dudu, 1990). Regarded as related to P. tullbergi by Van der Straeten and Dieterlen (1987). The type series and examples of misonnei we examined from the Ituri Forest in E Zaire and Gamangui in Haut-Zaïre, where P. jacksoni was also trapped, are morphologically very similar to P. tullbergi ; the possibility that misonnei simply represents populations of P. tullbergi at the eastern margins of its geographic range needs to be considered in any systematic revision of the complex. Qumsiyeh et al. (1990) identified Kenyan samples as P. misonnei , and their chromosomal and electrophoretic characteristics relate the samples to Mastomys hildebrandti ; identity of the Kenyan material should be reassessed.