Hylomyscus Thomas, 1926

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Sylla, Morlaye, Douno, Mory, Kadjo, Blaise, Lalis, Aude & Monadjem, Ara, 2025, Annotated checklist of rodents from a biodiversity hotspot, Mount Nimba (West Africa), Zoosystema 47 (27), pp. 617-689 : 645

Genus Hylomyscus Thomas, 1926

( Tables 7 ; 8 )

REMARKS

These small semi-arboreal rodents are well represented at Mount Nimba with 16 new individuals captured in the secondary forest of Serengbara and the gallery forest of Gouan on the Guinean side of the mountain, and 11 on the Liberian side (excluding 25 specimens released during Mission 2). These specimens have a short dense soft pelage of brown-yellow colour. A recent revision of the West and Central African Hylomyscus allowed Nicolas et al. (2020) to confirm that the Mount Nimba specimens are true H. simus (G. M. Allen & Coolidge, 1930) whose holotype was described from Merikay, ‘interior of Liberia’ with no more specific locality.