Mus minutoides Smith, 1834 . S. Afr. Quart. J., ser. 2, 2:157.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, S Cape Prov., Cape Town .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa (W, S, and E Cape Province, Natal, Zululand, Lesotho, Orange Free State, C and E Transvaal), Swaziland; northern limits unknown (see Skinner and Smithers, 1990:264; Meester et al., 1986:283).

SYNONYMS: minimus (Peters, 1852, not White, 1789), umbratus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Nannomys . Relationship of this species to M. musculoides has to be assessed by careful systematic revision of the minutoides-musculoides complex (see following account).