Mastomys angolensis (Bocage, 1890)

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 : 610

Mastomys angolensis (Bocage, 1890) . Jorn. Sei. Math., Phys. Nat., Lisboa, ser. 2, 2:12.

TYPE LOCALITY: Angola, Capangombe, interior of Mossamedes (additional information provided by Crawford-Cabral, 1989b) .

DISTRIBUTION: Angola and S Zaire.

SYNONYMS: angolae .

COMMENTS: Sometimes placed in Myomys or Myomyscus ( Allen, 1939; D. H. S. Davis, 1965; Hill and Carter, 1941), angolensis is more closely related to species of Mastomys ( Crawford-Cabral, 1989b; Misonne, 1974). It is morphologically similar to M. shortridgei and some authors treat the latter as a subspecies of M. angolensis ( Ansell, 1978; Ellerman et al., 1953). M. angolensis is either sympatric ( Hill and Carter, 1941; Crawford-Cabral, 1983) or altitudinally parapatric (specimens in the Field Museum of Natural History from Mt. Soque) with what is probably M. natalensis . CrawfordCabral (1989b) proposed Praomys angolae , which is apparently nothing more than a renaming of angolensis .