Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 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) .