Malacothrix typica (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 : 544

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scientific name	Malacothrix typica (A. Smith, 1834)
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Malacothrix typica (A. Smith, 1834) . S. Afr. Quart. J., 2: 148.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, E Cape Prov., Graaff Reinet Dist .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa (Cape Prov., Orange Free State, SW Transvaal), S Botswana, Namibia, and SW Angola (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:303).

SYNONYMS: damarensis , egeria , fryi, harveyi, kalaharicus, molopensis.

COMMENTS: Species is now absent from Natal in South Africa but was present up to about 60,000 years ago ( Avery, 1991).