Mus indutus (Thomas, 1910)

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 : 624

Mus indutus (Thomas, 1910) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5:89.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, N Cape Prov., Molopo River, west of Morokwen .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa (N Orange Free State, Transvaal, N Cape Prov.), W Zimbabwe, Botswana, C and N Namibia, (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:264).

SYNONYMS: deserti , pretoriae, valschensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Nannomys . Skinner and Smithers (1990) and Meester et al. (1986) discussed the morphological and chromosomal distinctions between M. indutus and M. minutoides . Skinner and Smithers (1990) also summarized biological data, and Meester et al. (1986) provided citations for synonyms. The definition of this species is ambiguous ( Meester et al., 1986; Skinner and Smithers, 1990). Meester et al. (1986) included the Angolan sybilla in M. indutus , but our study of the holotype revealed that sybilla belongs with M. musculoides .