Mastomys hildebrandtii (Peters, 1878)

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 : 610

Mastomys hildebrandtii (Peters, 1878) . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, p. 200.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Taita, Ndi .

DISTRIBUTION: From Senegal and Gambia east through West Africa to Central African Republic and N Zaire, extending to Djibuti and Somalia, then south to Burundi and Kenya; southern limits in E and W Africa unresolved.

COMMENTS: According to Qumsiyeh et al. (1990), hildebrandtii is an older name for huberti , the Mastomys with 2N=32, FN=44. Geographic range is abstracted from the map in Hubert et al. (1983). This is not the same species as M. natalensis from South Africa which is also characterized by 2N=32, but a different FN (54; Duplantier et al., 1990a), hemoglobin pattern (C. B. Robbins et al., 1983), and apparently serum proteins ( Robbins and Van der Straeten, 1989).