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 Mus (Nannomys) indutus Thomas 1910 Mus (Nannomys) indutus Thomas 1910 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5: 89 . Type Locality: N South Africa , Northern Cape Province , Molopo River, west of Morokwen. Vernacular Names: Desert Pygmy Mouse . Synonyms: Mus (Nannomys) deserti (Thomas 1912) ; Mus (Nannomys) pretoriae (Roberts 1926) ; Mus (Nannomys) valschensis (Roberts 1926) . Distribution: N South Africa , W Zimbabwe , Botswana , C and N Namibia ( de Graaff, 1997 n :143 ; Skinner and Smithers, 1990:264 ); also S Angola ( Crawford-Cabral, 1998 ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Subgenus Nannomys . Skinner and Smithers (1990) and Meester et al. (1986) discussed the morphological and chromosomal distinctions between M. indutus and M. minutoides . Skinner and Smithers (1990) also summarized biological data, and Meester et al. (1986) provided citations for synonyms. Definition of this species is ambiguous ( Meester et al., 1986 ; Skinner and Smithers, 1990 ). Meester et al. (1986) included the Angolan sybilla in M. indutus , but our study of the holotype revealed that sybilla belongs with M. minutoides .