Mount Lefo brush-furred mouse

The Mount Lefo brush-furred mouse (Lophuromys eisentrauti) is a rodent in the family Muridae, also known as Eisentraut's brush-furred rat. It belongs to the brush-furred mice of the genus Lophuromys. The species is found only on Mount Lefo, in the western area of Cameroon, and is counted among the endemic animals of the Cameroonian Highlands forests. It was described by Fritz Dieterlen in 1978. The International Union for Conservation of Nature assessed it in 2016 as Critically Endangered, the category for species judged to face an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild, which is consistent with its very small known range. Published accounts of the animal are short, and little else about its biology is recorded in the encyclopedia article that this entry follows.