Tatera brantsii (Smith, 1836)

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 : 560

Tatera brantsii (Smith, 1836) . Rept. Exped. Exploring Central Africa, p. 43.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Ladybrand, E Orange Free State, near Lesotho border (see Meester et al., 1986, for details) .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa (most of Cape Prov., N and W Natal, Zululand, Orange Free State, Transvaal; see Skinner and Smithers, 1990), W Zimbabwe, Botswana, C and E Namibia, S Angola, and SW Zambia.

SYNONYMS: breyeri , draco , griquae, joanae, maccalinus , maputa, miliaria, montanus , namaquensis , natalensis , perpallida, ruddi , tongensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Taterona . Taxonomy and distribution summarized by Meester et al. (1986), who assigned the species to the T. afra group. Geographic variation in protein and enzyme markers among samples from Lesotho was reported by Maurer et al. (1976).