Mastomys shortridgei (St. Leger, 1933)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 611

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scientific name	Mastomys shortridgei (St. Leger, 1933)
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Mastomys shortridgei (St. Leger, 1933) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1933:411.

TYPE LOCALITY: N Namibia, Grootfontein Dist., Okavango-Omatako junction .

DISTRIBUTION: Extreme NW Botswana and NE Namibia in the region of the confluence of Okavango and Kwito rivers (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:270).

SYNONYMS: legerae.

COMMENTS: Taxonomy reviewed by Meester et al. (1986:285). Some workers considered shortridgei closely related to or the same as M. angolensis ( Meester et al., 1986) . Occurs sympatrically with other species of Mastomys ( Skinner and Smithers, 1990) .