Otomys irroratus Brants 1827

Otomys irroratus Brants, 1827. Het. Gesl. Muiz., p. 94. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Town Dist., Constantia. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa to Kenya and Cameroun. COMMENT: Includes tropicalis; see Delany, 1975, The Rodents of Uganda, Br. Mus. Nat. Hist., 764:1-165, who also included typus in this species. Misonne, 1974, Part 6:33, and Ansell, 1978:78, considered typus a distinct species. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008111003001.Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 445, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735303