Dasymys incomtus (Sundevall, 1847)

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 : 589

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scientific name	Dasymys incomtus (Sundevall, 1847)
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Dasymys incomtus (Sundevall, 1847) View in CoL . Ofv. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl, Stockholm, 1846, 3:120 [1847].

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, "Caffraria prope Portum Natal," (= Durban, Natal) .

DISTRIBUTION: S Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, S Sudan; limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: alleni , bentleyae, capensis , edsoni, fuscus , griseifrons, gueinzii , helukus , médius , nigridius, orthos , palustris , savannus , shawi .

COMMENTS: Possibly a complex of several species. Chromosomal variation from South African specimens reported by Gordon (1991:413) who noted it "is equivocal whether the different chromosomal forms represent distinct species characterized by fixed rearrangements or a chromosomally polymorphic species."