Aethomys granfi (Wroughton, 1908) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 1:257.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Deelfontein .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa, known only from SC Cape Prov. (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:279).

COMMENTS: Meester et al. (1986:292) provided historical taxonomic allocations of granti, which ranged from Myomys, through Rattus and Mastomys to Aethomys . Reviewed and compared with A. namaquensis, its closest relative, by Skinner and Smithers (1990).