Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 1189 1531 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Aethomys thomasi (de Winton 1897) [Aethomys] thomasi (de Winton 1897) , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 20: 327 . Type Locality: Angola , Galanga. Vernacular Names: Thomas's Aethomys . Distribution: Endemic to Central Plateau of Angola ; see Crawford-Cabral, 1999:190). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: A morphologically distinctive Angolan endemic related to A. kaiseri and the "eastern African A. hindei-A. medicatus complex of species" (Crawford-Cabral, 1999:179). Although Crawford-Cabral (1986) suspected A. kaiseri to overlap with A. thomasi in the central highlands, he has recently shown the two species to have parapatric distributions in C Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1999), and outlined an hypothesis describing origin of A. thomasi within the context of zoogeographic origins and current distributions for other members of the A. kaiseri complex (Crawford-Cabral, 1999:191).