Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse, 1840 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840:2.

TYPE LOCALITY: Gambia, River Gambia .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Sudan to Angola and South Africa.

COMMENT: Formerly included emini; see Genest-Villard, 1967, Mammalia, 31:390-455; Rosevear, 1969, The Rodents of West Africa, Br. Mus. Lond., 677:221. Reviewed by Misonne, 1974, Part 6: 12; Ansell, 1978:75.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008101001001.