Lemniscomys mittendorfi Eisentraut, 1968

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer, 2014, African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon, Zoosystema 36 (3), pp. 647-690 : 668

Lemniscomys mittendorfi Eisentraut, 1968

Lemniscomys mittendorfi Eisentraut, 1968: 7 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Cameroon, Mt Oku.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MNHN: 2013-81.

ZFMK: Eisentraut collections 69.259 to 69.262.

ZFMK: Fülling collections: 91.235, 91.236, 2003-882 to 2003-887.

ZFMK: Owl pellets Lake Oku cave 91.94.

Morphological characters

The specimen newly collected were poorly preserved (few external data available, only skulls, no DNA sequencing possible). Their small size of skull, the small HF (21 mm) and the size and shape of the molars fit well with type series specimens housed in ZFMK ( Table 6).