Otomys laminatus Thomas and Schwann, 1905 . Abst. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905(18):23.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Natal, Zululand, Nkandhla, Sibudeni, 1050 m .

DISTRIBUTION: Discontinuous in South Africa, from SE Transvaal, parts of Natal and Transkei, to SW Cape Province; also Swaziland.

SYNONYMS: fannini, mariepsi, pondoensis, silberbaueri .

COMMENTS: A species with a highly derived molar pattern, believed to intergrade with O. irroratus by Petter (1982) but retained as a species in recent faunal studies (De Graaff, 1981; Meester et al., 1986; Smithers, 1983). Designated as the type of Lamotomys, a taxon employed as a subgenus of Otomys by Thomas (1918b) and as a genus by Roberts (1951).