Malacomys cansdalei Ansell, 1958

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 : 607

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scientific name	Malacomys cansdalei Ansell, 1958
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Malacomys cansdalei Ansell, 1958 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 13, 1:342.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana, Oda .

DISTRIBUTION: Forest zone of S Ghana, S Ivory Coast, and E Liberia.

SYNONYMS: giganteus .

COMMENTS: Part of the murine fauna endemic to West Africa (see account of Grammomys buntingi ). Rautenbach and Schütter (1978) considered cansdalei a subspecies of M. longipes .