Tatera valida (Bocage, 1890)

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 : 562

Tatera valida (Bocage, 1890) . J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, 2(5):6.

TYPE LOCALITY: Angola, Rio Cuando, Ambaca, Quissange, Caconda .

DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya to SW Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia, and Angola.

SYNONYMS: beniensis, benvenuta, dichrura, dundasi , liodon, lucia, neavei , nigrita , ruwenzorii, smithi , soror , taborae.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Taterona . Revised by Bates (1988). Allopatric with and closely related to the West African T. kempi (see that account).