Order Rodentia (Part 3) Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 392 476 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353031 f291a924-691f-4f06-bc89-3dc2421c2bed 0-89327-235-3 7353031 Steatomys pratensis Peters, 1846 . Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin , p. 258 . TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique , on the Zambezi River, Tete . DISTRIBUTION: Cameroun to S. Sudan , south to Transvaal, Natal, and perhaps E. Orange Free State ( South Africa ). COMMENT: Includes bocagei , gazellae , and opimus ; see Coetzee, 1977, Part 6.8:1-2, who also included caurinus and jacksoni in this species, but Swanepoel and Schütter, 1978, in Schütter, ed., Bull. Carnegie Mus . Nat. Hist., 6: 53-76, considered caurinus and jacksoni distinct species. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008110009001 as S. pratensis . 5301410008110002001 as S. bocagei . 5301410008110005001 as S. gazellae .