Order Insectivora Author Rainer Hutterer text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 69 130 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353085 1-56098-217-9 7353085 Myosorex varius (Smuts, 1832) . Enumer. Mamm. Capensium, p. 108 . TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa , Cape of Good Hope, Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth) . DISTRIBUTION: South Africa , from NW Cape Province to E Transvaal; Lesotho and Orange Free State . SYNONYMS: capensis , herpestes, pondoensis, transvaalensis (see Heim de Balsac and Meester, 1977 ). COMMENTS: Revised by Meester (1958) .