Grammomys polionops

Combinations

• Thamnomys surdaster polionops Osgood, 1910: 8 [original combination]

Synonyms

• Grammomys minnae Hutterer & Dieterlen, 1984: 10 [synonymised by Bryja et al. (2025: 17)]
  • Holotype: SMNS 24118, ♀, skin and skull, collected by Gerhard Nikolaus on 1 February 1976.
  • Type locality: “Bulcha Forest near Dilla, Ethiopia”.

• Grammomys brevirostris Kryštufek, 2008: 222 [synonymised by Bryja et al. (2025: 17)]
  • Holotype: BMNH 1976.838, adult ♀, skin and skull, collected y Oxford University Expedition in 1973.
  • Type locality: “Kenya, Lemesikio, Loliondo, Loita Plains (S 01°30', E 35°09')”.

Primary references

• Osgood, W.H. 1910. Diagnoses of New East African -Mammals, including a New Genus of Muridae. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 10(2): 5–13. BHL Reference page. 
• Hutterer, R. & Dieterlen, F. 1984. Zwei neue Arten der Gattung Grammomys aus Äthiopien und Kenia (Mammalia: Muridae). [Two new species of the genus Grammomys from Ethiopea and Kenya (Mammalia: Muridae).] Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (A) 374: 1–18. BHL Reference page. 
• Kryštufek, B. 2008. Description of a new thicket rat from Kenya: Grammomys brevirostris n. sp. Acta Zoologica Lituanica 18(4): 221–227. DOI: 10.2478/v10043-008-0036-6 Reference page. 
• Bryja, J., Kerbis Peterhans, J.K., Lavrenchenko, L.A., Nicolas, V., Denys, C., Bryjová, A., Šumbera, R. & Mikula, O. 2024. Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 206(2): zlae057. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae057 Reference page.