Otomys angoniensis Wroughton, 1906

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 : 680

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scientific name	Otomys angoniensis Wroughton, 1906
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Otomys angoniensis Wroughton, 1906 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 18:274.

TYPE LOCALITY: Malawi, Misuku Range, Matipa Forest, 7000 ft (as refined by Ansell and Dowsett, 1991) .

DISTRIBUTION: SE savannah and grasslands, from S Kenya to NE Cape Province, South Africa.

SYNONYMS: canescens , divinorum, elassodon, mashona , nyikae , pretoriae, rowleyi , sabiensis, tugelensis .

COMMENTS: Confused under O. irroratus by Bohmann (1952); morphological and karyotypic differences support their separate specific status (Davis, 1962; Matthey, 1964; Misonne, 1974). The form maximus (see account below) is viewed by some as a subspecies of O. angoniensis . See Bronner and Meester (1988, Mammalian Species, 306).