Otomys sloggetti Thomas, 1902

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 sloggetti Thomas, 1902
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Otomys sloggetti Thomas, 1902 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 10:311.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Province, Deelfontein, north of Richmond .

DISTRIBUTION: E Cape Province, Lesotho, and NW Natal, South Africa ( Lynch and Watson, 1992).

SYNONYMS: basuticus, jeppei, robertsi , turneri .

COMMENTS: A species with many primitive dental traits, viewed as closely related to O. unisulcatus ( Bohmann, 1952; Roberts, 1951; Thomas, 1918b). Karyotypic and genetic data supplied by Contrafatto et al. (1992b).