Graphiurus lorraineus Dollman, 1910

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Myoxidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 763-770 : 764

Graphiurus lorraineus Dollman, 1910 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5:285.

TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire, Welle (Uele) River, Molegbwe, south of Setema Rapids .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone, Liberia ( Kuhn, 1965), Ivory Coast ( Aellen, 1965; Mt Nimba Reserve see Heim de Balsac and Lamotte, 1958), Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria ( Happold, 1987), Cameroon (Robbins and Schütter, 1981; Schütter et al., 1985), Gabon, N Angola ( Hayman, 1963b), Zaire ( Hatt, 1940a; Petter, 1967a; Verheyen and Verschuren, 1966), Uganda, SW Tanzania ( Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951); perhaps Gambia. In W Africa see Rosevear (1969).

SYNONYMS: collaris, haedulus, spurrelli .

COMMENTS: Discussion of Gambian specimens and possible synonymy with G. coupeii incertae sedis given in Schütter et al. (1985).