Mus minutoides 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 : 625

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284495
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scientific name	Mus minutoides Smith, 1834
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Mus minutoides Smith, 1834 View in CoL . 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).