Aethomys chrysophilus (de Winton, 1897)

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 : 567

Aethomys chrysophilus (de Winton, 1897) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1896:801 [1897].

TYPE LOCALITY: S Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Mazoe .

DISTRIBUTION: From SE Kenya south through Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and E Botswana into South Africa, Namibia, and north into S Angola.

SYNONYMS: alticola , capricornis, fouriei, harei, imago, ineptus , magalakuini, pretoriae, singidae, tongensis, tzaneenensis, voi .

COMMENTS: Data from chromosomes ( Gordon and Rautenbach, 1980; Visser and Robinson, 1986) and spermatozoal morphology ( Gordon and Watson, 1986; Visser and Robinson, 1987) indicated that populations now identified as A. chrysophilus consist of two species: chrysophilus itself and another species not yet identified by scientific name. The segment occuring in southern African subregion reviewed by Skinner and Smithers (1990).