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 Malacothrix typica (A. Smith, 1834) . S. Afr. Quart. J., 2: 148 . TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa , E Cape Prov. , Graaff Reinet Dist . DISTRIBUTION: South Africa ( Cape Prov. , Orange Free State , SW Transvaal), S Botswana , Namibia , and SW Angola (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:303 ). SYNONYMS: damarensis , egeria , fryi, harveyi, kalaharicus, molopensis. COMMENTS: Species is now absent from Natal in South Africa but was present up to about 60,000 years ago ( Avery, 1991 ).