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Otomys sloggetti Thomas, 1902. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 10:311. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Province, Deelfontein, north of Richmond. DISTRIBUTION: E Cape Province, Lesotho, and NW Natal, South Africa (Lynch and Watson, 1992). SYNONYMS: basuticus, jeppei, robertsi, turneri. COMMENTS: A species with many primitive dental traits, viewed as closely related to O. unisulcatus (Bohmann, 1952; Roberts, 1951; Thomas, 1918b). Karyotypic and genetic data supplied by Contrafatto et al. (1992b).

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 681, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098