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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Nesomyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Dendromurinae
--> GENUS Malacothrix
SPECIES Malacothrix typica
| Author: | A. Smith, 1834. | | Citation: | S. Afr. Quart. J., 2: 148. | | Common Name: | Large-eared African Desert Mouse | | Type Locality: | South Africa, Eastern Cape Prov., Graaff Reinet Dist. | | Distribution: | Eastern portion of Southern African Subregion in semidesert regions (mean annual rainfall = 150-500 mm) where sandy plains, short grassy velds, and karroid shrubs on hard substrates predominate; ranges in C and E South Africa (Eastern, Western and Northern Cape Provs., Free State, Northwest Prov.), S Botswana (Smithers, 1971), most of Namibia, and extreme SW Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1998). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Reviewed by Skinner and Smithers (1990) and de Graaff (1997aa). The species is now absent from KwaZulu-Natal in E South Africa but was present until about 60,000 years ago (Avery, 1991). Closely related to the extinct M. makapani, early Pleistocene Swartkrans cave sediments in South Africa (Avery, 1998). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
damarensis Roberts, 1932
egeria Thomas, 1926
fryi Roberts, 1917
harveyi Roberts, 1951
kalaharicus Roberts, 1932
molopensis Roberts, 1933
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