Dendromus melanotis 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 : 542-543

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Dendromus melanotis Smith, 1834 . S. Afr. Quart. J., 2: 158.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, near Port Natal (Durban) .

DISTRIBUTION: From South Africa (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:306) north to Uganda, and west through Nigeria to Mt-Nimba in Guinea; also from Ethiopia (# 8119 in American Museum of Natural History), but published records might be D. mystacalis ( Yalden et al., 1976) . Limits of range unresolved.

SYNONYMS: arenarius , basuticus, capensis , carteri, chiversi , concinnus , exoneratus , insignis ( Shortridge and Carter, 1938, not Thomas, 1903), leucostomus , nigrifrons , pallidus , pretoriae, shortridgei , spectabilis , subtilis , thorntoni, vulturnus.