Mount Lefo Brush-furred Rat

Mount Lefo Brush-furred RatThe Mount Lefo Brush-furred Rat is known from Mount Lefo in Cameroon. A 1992 taxonomic study treated it as a distinct species, and the IUCN assessment summarizes records from montane moist forest.What does it look like?A 1992 paper gives the adult Mount Lefo holotype a total length of 156 mm and contrasts it with a 198 mm Lophuromys sikapusi specimen.How does it live?The Mount Lefo Brush-furred Rat is known from Mount Lefo in Cameroon. A 1992 taxonomic study treated it as a distinct species, and the IUCN assessment summarizes records from montane moist forest.The IUCN account records it from montane moist forest on Mount Lefo at 2,550 m and reports no confirmed locality beyond the type area.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.