Dark-colored brush-furred rat

The dark-colored brush-furred rat, Lophuromys aquilus, is a rodent of the family Muridae, placed in the subfamily Deomyinae and the genus Lophuromys. It was first described as Mus aquilus by Frederick W. True in 1892, from a specimen collected on Mount Kilimanjaro at about 2,650 metres in Tanzania, and the Mammal Diversity Database records it as a living species found in the wild in the Afrotropical realm, with Tanzania as its country of distribution. The database notes that the species once included the forms now treated separately as Lophuromys cinereus, L. laticeps, L. margarettae and L. rita, so older literature that uses the name aquilus may be describing several animals at once. The Mammal Diversity Database lists its IUCN Red List status as Not Evaluated.