Otomys maximus Roberts, 1924

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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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285746
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scientific name	Otomys maximus Roberts, 1924
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Otomys maximus Roberts, 1924 View in CoL . Ann. Transvaal Mus., 10:70.

TYPE LOCALITY: Zambia, Machile River, a northern tributary of the Zambesi .

DISTRIBUTION: S Angola, SW Zambia, Okavango region of Botswana, and Caprivi Strip of Namibia.

SYNONYMS: cuanzensis , dovisi.

COMMENTS: Described as a subspecies of irroratus and later elevated by Roberts (1951) to specific level. Viewed as a subspecies of O. angoniensis by Davis (1974), and so ranked in many faunal treatises (e.g., Meester et al., 1986; Misonne, 1974), or continued as a distinct species ( Smithers, 1983; Swanepoel et al., 1980), which leaves the matter of their synonymy as inconclusive to date.