MSW Scientific Names

Dendromus nyikae



• Author........ : Wroughton, 1909.
  
• Citation...... : Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 3:248.
  
• Common Name... : Nyika Climbing Mouse
  
• Distribution.. :SC Zaire, N and C Angola, South Africa (E Transvaal), E Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, SW Tanzania, and Mozambique; limits unknown.
  
• Type Locality. :N Malawi, Nyika Plateau.
  
• Comments...... : The record from Zaire is documented by specimens in the American Museum of Natural History collected at Kananga (Luluabourg) and labelled pecilei.