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 Petromyscus barbouri Shortridge and Carter, 1938 . Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 32:288 . TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa , NW Cape Province , Little Namaqualand, Witwater, Kamiesberg, 3500-3800 ft . DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Springbok and Kamiesberg regions and Loeriesfontein area in Little Namaqualand, NW Cape Province , South Africa (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:315 ); limits unknown. COMMENTS: Although listed as a subspecies of P. collinus by Meester et al. (1986) , P. barbouri is separated from P. collinus not only by the diagnostic short and bicolored tail noted by Shortridge and Carter (1938) , but by its smaller skull, relatively shorter rostrum, much shorter molar rows, and lack of postaxillary teats.