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 Mastomys shortridgei (St. Leger, 1933) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1933:411 . TYPE LOCALITY: N Namibia , Grootfontein Dist., Okavango-Omatako junction . DISTRIBUTION: Extreme NW Botswana and NE Namibia in the region of the confluence of Okavango and Kwito rivers (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:270 ). SYNONYMS: legerae. COMMENTS: Taxonomy reviewed by Meester et al. (1986:285) . Some workers considered shortridgei closely related to or the same as M. angolensis ( Meester et al., 1986 ) . Occurs sympatrically with other species of Mastomys ( Skinner and Smithers, 1990 ) .