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 Thallomys paedulcus (Sundevall 1846) [Thallomys] paedulcus ( Sundevall 1846 ) , Ofv. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm , Vol. 3: 120 . Type Locality: South Africa , "In Caffraria interiore, prope tropicum," (Ellerman et al., 1953); "type locality was in the Magaliesberg area and has been provisionally fixed as Crocodile Drift, Brits, Transvaal [= Gauteng ]" (D. H. S. Davis, 1965:127). Vernacular Names: Acacia Thallomys . Synonyms: Thallomys acaciae (Roberts 1915) ; Thallomys lebomboensis Roberts 1931 ; Thallomys moggi ( Roberts 1913 ) ; Thallomys rhodesiae ( Osgood 1910 ) ; Thallomys ruddi ( Thomas and Wroughton 1908 ) ; Thallomys scotti Thomas and Hinton 1923 ; Thallomys somaliensis ( Roche 1964 ) ; Thallomys stevensoni Roberts 1933 ; Thallomys zambesiana Lundholm 1955 . Distribution: From NE South Africa (N KwaZulu-Natal , W Mpumalanga , Limpopo , Gauteng , and North West ), Swaziland , and Botswana north through Zimbabwe , S Zambia , Mozambique , Malawi , Tanzania , Kenya to S Ethiopia and S Somalia ; limits unknown. See Taylor et al. (1995) for distribution in Southern African Subregion. Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: In body size, the smallest of all the species. Identification of paedulcus as a separate species compared with the larger T. damarensis and association of scotti , were correctly perceived and documented by F. Petter (1973 a ) . Thomas and Wroughton's (1908) ruddi , described as a species of Thamnomys , is a Thallomys ( Lawrence and Loveridge, 1953 ) and another example of T. paedulcus . Identification of the holotype of paedulcus , along with critical measurements, recorded by Ellerman et al. (1953) and verified by F. Petter (1973 a ) . The names acaciae , lebomboensis , and stevensoni were listed by Roberts (1951) as subspecies of T. moggi ; rhodesiae was described by Osgood (1910) as a subspecies of Mus damarensis (which is here synonymized in T. nigricauda ); and zambesiana was proposed by Lundholm (1955 a ) as a subspecies of T. nigricauda . Roche (1964) described somaliensis as a subspecies of T. paedulcus . Morphometric contrasts between T. paedulcus and T. nigricauda provided by Taylor et al. (1995) , who also identified a skull from Kenya as T. paedulcus (a different skull than the one from Kenya identified by Taylor et al., 1995 , as T. nigricauda ; see that account). Because Taylor et al. (1995) found T. nigricauda to range widely through the Transvaal, they questioned the identity of the holotype of paedulcus , even though specimens from 3 km NNE Brits had 2n = 46, within the range of T. paedulcus . Neither the holotype of paedulcus nor that of nigricauda was included in the analyses made by Taylor et al. (1995) . Denys et al. (1999) found fragments of T. paedulcus in owl pellets in N Malawi . Southern African population reviewed by Lovegrove (1997 a ) , and records from KwaZulu-Natal discussed by Taylor (1998).