Order Rodentia - Family Petromuridae 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 1544 1545 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Petromus A. Smith 1831 Petromus A. Smith 1831 , South African Quart. J., 1 (5): 10 . Type Species: Petromus typicus A. Smith 1831 Synonyms: Petromys A. Smith 1834 . Species and subspecies: 1 species with 15 subspecies: Species Petromus typicus A. Smith 1831 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. typicus A. Smith 1831 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. ausensis Roberts 1938 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. barbiensis Roberts 1938 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. cinnamomeus Roberts 1946 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. coetzeei Cabral 1966 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. cunealis Thomas 1926 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. greeni Lundholm 1955 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. guinasensis Roberts 1938 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. karasensis Roberts 1946 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. kobosensis Roberts 1938 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. majoriae Bradfield 1936 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. namaquensis Roberts 1938 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. pallidior Lundholm 1955 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. tropicalis Thomas and Hinton 1925 Subspecies Petromus typicus subsp. windhoekensis Roberts 1938 Discussion: Originally named Petromus , but unjustifiably emended to Petromys by Smith (1834), see Swanepoel et al. (1980:161) .