Myomys verreauxii (Smith, 1834) . S. Afr. Quart. J., 2:156.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, near Cape Town .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa, SW Cape Prov., from Olifants River in the west to Nature's Valley, Plettenberg Bay in the east (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:271).

SYNONYMS: colonus, veroxii.

COMMENTS: A South African endemic. Taxonomy reviewed by Meester et al. (1986); distributional and biological information provided by Skinner and Smithers (1990).