Glover Allen's dasymys

Glover Allen's dasymys, also called Glover Allen's shaggy rat (Dasymys alleni), is a species of shaggy marsh rat described in 1953 and indigenous to Mount Rungwe in south-western Tanzania. Its taxonomy is contested: the International Union for Conservation of Nature recognises it as a subspecies of the more widespread Dasymys incomtus, while Wilson and Reeder note that Mammal Species of the World reinstated it as a distinct species. In their recent analysis, Verheyen and colleagues describe its distribution as covering the Eastern Arc Mountains and the mountainous volcanic regions around Lake Tanganyika, and possibly the Marungu highlands in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.