Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat

Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat, Pelomys hopkinsi, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, and possibly in Burundi and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is swamps, and it is threatened by habitat loss. The rat was described by Robert William Hayman in 1955 and is named after the entomologist George Henry Evans Hopkins (1898 to 1973), who lived and worked in Uganda for many years and was noted for his research on lice, fleas and mosquitoes. Hopkins had collaborated with Hayman and Reginald Ernest Moreau on a 1946 paper on the type localities of some African mammals. Its IUCN status is Data Deficient, so its population and exact range remain poorly known.