Steatomys jacksoni Hayman, 1936 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1935:930.

TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana, Ashanti, Wenchi .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

COMMENT: Included in pratensis by Coetzee, 1977, Part 6.8:1; considered a distinct species by Swanepoel and Schütter, 1978, in Schütter, ed., Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 6:53-76; the holotype is the only known specimen.