Mystromys albicaudatus (A. Smith, 1834)

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 : 677

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Mystromys albicaudatus (A. Smith, 1834) . S Afr. Quart. J., 2:148.

TYPE LOCALITY: S Africa, E Cape Province, Albany Dist .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to southern Africa: Cape Prov., W and N Natal, Orange Free State, and SW and S Transvaal ( South Africa), and Swaziland; see map in Skinner and Smithers (1990:297).

SYNONYMS: albipes , fumosus , lanuginosus (see Meester et al., 1986).

COMMENTS: Closest phylogenetic relatives are Mystromys hausleitneri , M. pocockei , and Proodontomys cookei , all extinct and represented by fossils from Pliocene-Pleistocene australopithecine sites in the Transvaal of South Africa ( Denys, 1991; Pocock, 1987).