Myosorex cafer (Sundevall, 1846)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 99

Myosorex cafer (Sundevall, 1846) . Ofv. Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, 3:119.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, "E Caffraria interiore et Port-Natal" .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa, eastern escarpment and north to the Transvaal; extreme W Mozambique and E Zimbabwe, in higher elevations above 1,000 m.

SYNONYMS: swinnyi.

COMMENTS: Meester (1958) described the geographic variation of the species. Heim de Balsac and Meester (1977) included affinis, sclateri , swinnyi, talpinus and tenuis in cafer , while Wolhuter (in Smithers, 1983:3) and Dippenaar et al. (1983) regarded sclateri and tenuis as distinct, partly based on new karyotype information. Although no additonal data have yet been published, this view is provisionally accepted here as it better reflects existing variation within the southern African representatives of the genus.