Otomys laminatus Thomas and Schwann, 1905

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 681

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scientific name	Otomys laminatus Thomas and Schwann, 1905
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Otomys laminatus Thomas and Schwann, 1905 View in CoL . Abst. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905(18):23.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Natal, Zululand, Nkandhla, Sibudeni, 1050 m .

DISTRIBUTION: Discontinuous in South Africa, from SE Transvaal, parts of Natal and Transkei, to SW Cape Province; also Swaziland.

SYNONYMS: fannini, mariepsi, pondoensis, silberbaueri .

COMMENTS: A species with a highly derived molar pattern, believed to intergrade with O. irroratus by Petter (1982) but retained as a species in recent faunal studies ( De Graaff, 1981; Meester et al., 1986; Smithers, 1983). Designated as the type of Lamotomys , a taxon employed as a subgenus of Otomys by Thomas (1918b) and as a genus by Roberts (1951).