Cricetomys emini Wroughton, 1910 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5: 106.

TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire (=N.E. Congo), Monbuttu, Gadda .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone to Gabon, Uganda, and Zaire; Bioko.

COMMENT: Separated from gambianus by Genest-Villard, 1967, Mammalia, 31:390-455, and Rosevear, 1969, The Rodents of West Africa, Br. Mus. Lond., 677:221.