Tatera leucogaster (Peters, 1852)

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 : 561

Tatera leucogaster (Peters, 1852) . Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss., Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 17:274.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, north of Zambezi River, Mesuril, (as restricted by Davis, 1949:1004) .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa (W Orange Free State, Cape Prov. north of Orange River, NE Natal and Zululand, most of Transvaal; see Skinner and Smithers, 1990), Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, S Angola, SW Tanzania, and S Zaire.

SYNONYMS: angolae , bechuanae , beirae, beirensis, kaokoensis, limpopoensis , littoralis , lobengulae , mashonae , mitchelli , ndolae, nigrotibialis, nyasae , panja , pestis, pretoriae, salsa, schinzi, shirensis, stellae , tenuis , tzaneenensis, waterbergensis, zuluensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Taterona . Taxonomy and distribution summarized by Meester et al. (1986), who included the species in the T. robusta group. Namibian populations reviewed by Griffin (1990). Nongeographic variation in Botswana sample analyzed by Swanepoel et al. (1979).