Sheko Forest brush-furred rat

The Sheko Forest brush-furred rat (Lophuromys pseudosikapusi) is a small rodent of the family Muridae, one of the brush-furred mice, and it is found only in Ethiopia. It was formally described in 2007 by Leonid Lavrenchenko, Walter and Erik Verheyen, Jan Hulselmans and Herwig Leirs, in the same morphometric and genetic study of the Ethiopian Lophuromys flavopunctatus species complex that described three new species with 70 chromosomes. The type specimen, catalogued as ZMMU S-179563, was captured in the Sheko Forest of south-western Ethiopia at about 1,930 metres above sea level, in disturbed humid afromontane forest roughly 800 metres north of the local agricultural office of the Sheko settlement. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in the Afrotropical realm and records its IUCN Red List status as Endangered.